
Samuel L. Jackson
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Biography
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing actor of all time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Academy Honorary Award in 2022 as "A cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated across genres and generations and audiences worldwide".
Jackson started his career on stage making his professional theatre debut in Mother Courage and her Children in 1980 at The Public Theatre. From 1981 to 1983 he originated the role of Private Louis Henderson in A Soldier's Play Off-Broadway. He also originated the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson in 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theatre. He returned to the play in the 2022 Broadway revival playing Doaker Charles. Jackson early film roles include Coming to America (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Patriot Games (1992), Juice (1992), True Romance (1993), and Jurassic Park (1993), Menace II Society (1993), and Fresh (1994). His collaborations with Spike Lee led to greater prominence with films such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Oldboy (2013), and Chi-Raq (2015).
Jackson's breakout role was in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) which earned him a BAFTA Award win and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He further collaborated with Tarantino, acting in Jackie Brown (1997), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). He's known for having appeared in a number of big-budget films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The Negotiator (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000) and its reboot (2019), XXX (2002), S.W.A.T. (2003), Coach Carter (2005), Snakes on a Plane (2006), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), and Glass (2019).
He also gained widespread recognition as the Jedi Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), later voicing the role in the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and the video game Lego Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2011). With his permission, his likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury; he subsequently played Fury in 11 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with a cameo appearance in Iron Man (2008), as well as guest-starring in the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He will reprise this role in the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion, which is set to premiere on June 21, 2023. Jackson has provided his voice for several animated films, documentaries, television series, and video games, including Lucius Best / Frozone in the Pixar films The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018).
Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Oscars

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Daily Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tony Awards

Saturday Night Live

Real Time with Bill Maher

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Law & Order

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Colbert Report

Parkinson

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Movies That Made Us

The Early Show

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Honest Trailers

The Frank Skinner Show

Today

Raw

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

The Proud Family

HBO First Look

The Jonathan Ross Show

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Boondocks

Finding Your Roots

Amend: The Fight for America

Marvel Studios Legends

Dynamo: Magician Impossible

Extras

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Staged

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Iron Man

FireAid Benefit Concert

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Inglourious Basterds

Avengers: Infinity War

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Avengers: Endgame

Thor

GoodFellas

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

WandaVision

Out of Sight

The Exorcist III

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Ragtime

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

Do the Right Thing

Quincy

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

What If...?

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Prohibition

Avengers: Doomsday

Coming to America

Avengers: Secret Wars

Astro Boy

Return to Jurassic Park

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

The Avengers

Jurassic Park

RoboCop

Argylle

True Romance

Captain America: The First Avenger

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Patriot Games

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Iron Man 2

Losing Isaiah

The Other Guys

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Juice

The Incredibles

The War

Strictly Business

Deep Blue Sea

Chi-Raq

Menace II Society

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Django Unchained

Incredibles 2

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

Hard Eight

Oldboy

Afterburn

Turbo

The Marvels

xXx

The Kill Room

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Glass

The Legend of Tarzan

Captain America: Brave New World

Sphere

Jumper

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

A Time to Kill

The Unholy Trinity

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Unbreakable

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Pulp Fiction

Captain Marvel

The Protégé

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Against the Wall

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

Rules of Engagement

Unicorn Store

Cell

The Banker

Twisted

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

1408

Kong: Skull Island

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The Garfield Movie

Black Snake Moan

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

xXx: State of the Union

Jackie Brown

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Changing Lanes

Cleaner

S.W.A.T.

Secret Invasion

Man of War

Coach Carter

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

Unthinkable

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Afro Samurai

NOLA King

Big Game

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion

Damaged

Shaft

The Hateful Eight

One Eight Seven
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