
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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Oscars

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Daily Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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

What If...?

Parkinson

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Movies That Made Us

The Early Show

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

The Frank Skinner Show

Today

Raw

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

The Proud Family

HBO First Look

The Jonathan Ross Show

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Honest Trailers

The Boondocks

Finding Your Roots

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

Avengers: Infinity War

Inglourious Basterds

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Avengers: Endgame

Thor

GoodFellas

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Out of Sight

WandaVision

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

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Prohibition

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Astro Boy

Coming to America

Return to Jurassic Park

Avengers: Secret Wars

Avengers: Doomsday

The Avengers

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

Jurassic Park

Argylle

RoboCop

Captain America: The First Avenger

True Romance

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Patriot Games

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Losing Isaiah

The Other Guys

Iron Man 2

The Incredibles

Juice

Django Unchained

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Chi-Raq

The War

Incredibles 2

Menace II Society

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

Amend: The Fight for America

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Strictly Business

Oldboy

Afterburn

xXx

Turbo

Deep Blue Sea

Hard Eight

The Marvels

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Legend of Tarzan

A Time to Kill

Jumper

Spider-Man: Far From Home

The Kill Room

Glass

Sphere

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Captain America: Brave New World

Twisted

The Hitman's Bodyguard

The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Protégé

Unbreakable

The Banker

The Unholy Trinity

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

The Garfield Movie

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Against the Wall

Unicorn Store

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

1408

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Captain Marvel

Kong: Skull Island

Rules of Engagement

Jackie Brown

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

xXx: State of the Union

Changing Lanes

Black Snake Moan

Pulp Fiction

Cell

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion

Big Game

One Eight Seven

Shaft

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

Man of War

S.W.A.T.

Damaged

Secret Invasion

Afro Samurai

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

The Hateful Eight

Unthinkable

Coach Carter

Cleaner
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