Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and producer. He rose to fame with films such as Coming to America and Goodfellas. According to DNA tests, Jackson partially descends from the Benga people of Gabon. He became a naturalized citizen ofGabon in 2019.
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Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and producer. He rose to fame with films such as Coming to America and Goodfellas. Jackson is a highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 150 films. According to DNA tests, Jackson partially descends from the Benga people of Gabon, and he became a naturalized citizen ofGabon in 2019. Jackson has provided his voice to several animated films, documentaries, television series, and video games. He also played Mace Windu in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Frank Tenpenny in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In 2016, Jackson served as the narrator of the acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro based on James Baldwin’s writings. He was born in Washington, D. C. on December 21, 1948, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended several segregated schools and graduated from Riverside High School in Chattanooga. He played the French horn, piccolo, trumpet, and flute in the school orchestra. His stutter started during childhood. He learned to \”pretend to be other people who didn’t stutter\”. He still uses the word \”motherfucker\” to get through a speech block. After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Jackson attended King’s funeral in Atlanta as one of the ushers. He then travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, to join an equal rights protest march. While he was suspended, he took a job as a social worker in Los Angeles, where he began to feel empowered with his involvement in the Black Power movement.
In 1969, he held Morehouse College students hostage, demanding reform in the college’s curriculum. The college eventually agreed to change its curriculum, but Jackson was eventually convicted of unlawful confinement. He would later return to the college to earn a BA in drama in 1972. He has also appeared in the films Die Hard with a Vengeance, A Time to Kill, Hard Eight, Eve’s Bayou, The Red Violin, Unbreakable, Shaft and its sequel, XXX, Coach Carter, Snakes on a Plane, The Other Guys, Kong: Skull Island, and Glass. He will reprise this role in a future Disney+ series. He will also reprise the role of Lucius Best Frozone in the Pixar films The Incredibles and Incredible 2, Whiplash in Turbo, the title character of the anime television series Afro Samurai, and Frank 10penny in Grand Theft auto: San Andreas. 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, as well as guest-starring in the television series Marvel’s Agents of S. H. I. L. D.. He has appeared in several other films, including Patriot Games, Juice, Menace II Society, True Romance, Jurassic Park, and Fresh.
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