
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

Saturday Night Live

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

Real Time with Bill Maher

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

What If...?

The Early Show

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

The Frank Skinner Show

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Today

Raw

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

The Proud Family

HBO First Look

The Jonathan Ross Show

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Marvel Studios Legends

Honest Trailers

Finding Your Roots

The Boondocks

Amend: The Fight for America

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

The Exorcist III

Out of Sight

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

Do the Right Thing

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

Quincy

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Prohibition

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Avengers: Doomsday

Coming to America

Astro Boy

Avengers: Secret Wars

Return to Jurassic Park

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

The Avengers

RoboCop

Jurassic Park

Argylle

True Romance

Captain America: The First Avenger

Patriot Games

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Iron Man 2

Losing Isaiah

The Other Guys

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

The Incredibles

Juice

Django Unchained

The War

Chi-Raq

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Menace II Society

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Strictly Business

Incredibles 2

Deep Blue Sea

The Marvels

Hard Eight

xXx

Turbo

Oldboy

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Captain America: Brave New World

A Time to Kill

The Legend of Tarzan

Jumper

Glass

Sphere

Kingsman: The Secret Service

The Kill Room

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

Changing Lanes

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Kong: Skull Island

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Cell

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The Unholy Trinity

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Rules of Engagement

xXx: State of the Union

Pulp Fiction

Unicorn Store

1408

Twisted

Against the Wall

Jackie Brown

Captain Marvel

Black Snake Moan

The Banker

The Garfield Movie

The Protégé

Unbreakable

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Afro Samurai

Unthinkable

One Eight Seven

Shaft

Cleaner

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion

Man of War

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

Damaged

The Hateful Eight

Secret Invasion

S.W.A.T.

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Big Game

Coach Carter
Production Credits
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