Samuel L. Jackson
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).
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Law & Order
Attorney Louis Taggert
Great Performances
Self
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Mace Windu (voice) (archive sound)
The Avengers
Nick Fury
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury
Tulsa King
Russell Lee Washington Jr.
xXx
Agent Augustus Gibbons
White Sands
Greg Meeker
What If...?
Nick Fury (voice)
What If...?
Sir Fury (voice)
Avengers: Infinity War
Nick Fury (uncredited)
Bambi
Self
Pulp Fiction
Jules Winnfield
GoodFellas
Stacks Edwards
The Boondocks
The Boondocks
Rummy (voice)
Finding Your Roots
Self
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self - Presenter
Inglourious Basterds
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Iron Man 2
Nick Fury
Iron Man
Nick Fury (uncredited)
Spenser: For Hire
The Oscars
Self
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
The Unholy Trinity
St. Christopher
Avengers: Endgame
Nick Fury
Django Unchained
Stephen
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Nick Fury
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Nick Fury
Marvel Studios Legends
Nick Fury (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Nick Fury (voice)
Extras
Samuel L. Jackson
The Proud Family
Joseph (voice)
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self
The Incredibles
Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Rufus
TRL
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Mayor (voice)
Secret Invasion
Nick Fury
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Valentine
Thor
Nick Fury (uncredited)
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Agent Augustus Gibbons
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Mace Windu (voice)
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Brother Elvis
The Hateful Eight
Major Marquis Warren
Ghostwriter
Reggie Jenkins
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Rufus
Incredibles 2
Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)
The Garfield Movie
Vic (voice)
Kong: Skull Island
Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard
Captain Marvel
Nick Fury
Jurassic Park
Arnold
HBO First Look
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Zeus Carver
Captain America: The First Avenger
Nick Fury
Unbreakable
Elijah Price
Afterburn
Valentine
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Mace Windu
Coming to America
Hold-Up Man
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Mace Windu
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Barron
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self
The Movies That Made Us
Self (archive footage)
Jumper
Roland
The Marvels
Nick Fury
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Mace Windu
Staged
Sam
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Nick Fury
Glass
Elijah Price / Mr. Glass
The American Revolution
Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)
RoboCop
Pat Novak
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Darius Kincaid
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Self
Cell
Thomas 'Tom' McCourt
The War
Narrator (voice)
Turbo
Whiplash (voice)
Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai / Ninja Ninja (voice)
Snakes on a Plane
Neville Flynn
xXx: State of the Union
Agent Augustus Gibbons
A Time to Kill
Carl Lee Hailey
Deep Blue Sea
Russell Franklin
Jackie Brown
Ordell Robbie
The Protégé
Moody
The Other Guys
P.K. Highsmith
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Self
Coach Carter
Ken Carter
The Legend of Tarzan
George Washington Williams
Oldboy
Chaney
Iconoclasts
Self
S.W.A.T.
Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson
The Negotiator
Lt. Danny Roman
JANET JACKSON.
Self
True Romance
Big Don
Prohibition
Reader (voice)
Argylle
Alfie
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Ptolemy Grey
The Banker
Joe Morris
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Darius Kincaid
Twisted
John Mills
Eve's Bayou
Louis Batiste
1408
Gerald Olin
Unthinkable
Henry Harold 'H' Humphries
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Marcus Banks
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Mace Windu (voice)
Astro Boy
Zog (voice)
Menace II Society
Tat Lawson
Cleaner
Tom Cutler
Meeting Evil
Richie
Freedomland
Lorenzo Council
Frisco King
Russell Lee Washington Jr.
Big Game
US President William Alan Moore
Zambezia
Tendai (voice)
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
Frank Moten
The Exorcist III
Dream Blind Man
Do the Right Thing
Mister Señor Love Daddy
Sphere
Dr. Harry Adams
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Mitch Henessey
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Jimbo (voice)
Shaft
John Shaft
Working Shakespeare
Sea of Love
Black Guy
Damaged
Dan Lawson
Patriot Games
Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson
A Shock to the System
Ulysses
Fresh
Sam
Shaft
John Shaft
Barely Lethal
Hardman
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion
Self - 'Nick Fury'
Black Snake Moan
Lazarus
Middle School Confessions
Host
Beyond the Spotlight
Basic
Drill Sgt. SFC Nathan West
Enslaved
Self
Changing Lanes
Doyle Gipson
Out of Sight
Hejira Henry (uncredited)
The Spirit
Octopus
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Narrator (voice)
One Eight Seven
Trevor Garfield
The 51st State
Elmo McElroy
The Piano Lesson
Doaker Charles
The Sunset Limited
Black
Lakeview Terrace
Abel Turner
Rules of Engagement
Col. Terry L. Childers
FireAid Benefit Concert
Self
Juice
Trip
Death to 2020
Dash Bracket
Strictly Business
Monroe
Kite
Lieutenant Karl Aker
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Wes Luger
Mo' Better Blues
Madlock
America Beyond the Color Line
Self
The Kill Room
Gordon
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Soul Men
Louis Hinds
The Man
Derrick Vann
Jungle Fever
Gator Purify
The Great Beyond
Reasonable Doubt
Clinton Davis
Life Itself
Self
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Self
The Last Full Measure
Takoda
The Red Violin
Charles Morritz (Montréal)
Uneven Fairways
Narrator
Arena
Logan
Against the Wall
Jamaal
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Self
Kiss of Death
Calvin Hart
Fluke
Rumbo (voice)
Amos & Andrew
Andrew Sterling
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Afro / Ninja-Ninja (voice)
Home of the Brave
William Marsh
Quincy
Self
Betsy's Wedding
Taxi Dispatcher (Mickey)
Return to Jurassic Park
Self
In My Country
Langston Whitfield
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Fear (voice)
Resurrecting the Champ
Champ
Hard Eight
Jimmy
I Am Not Your Negro
Narrator (voice)
The Great White Hype
Rev. Fred Sultan
Our Friend, Martin
Turner (voice)
The Exterminator
Extra (uncredited)
A Night to Die For
Self - Host
Ragtime
Gang Member No. 2
Chi-Raq
Dolmedes
QT8: The First Eight
Self (uncredited)
One World: Together at Home
Self
African Cats
Narrator (voice)
Losing Isaiah
Kadar Lewis
Miracle on 42nd Street
Self
No Good Deed
Jack Friar
Gospel Hill
Paul Malcolm
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Self
The Fix
Narrator (voice)
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
The Face is Familiar
Himself
St. Vincent
Mother and Child
Paul
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
Self
Forever Hollywood
Self
The Caveman's Valentine
Romulus
The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies
Self - Narrator
Face of Unity
Self
The New Age
Dale Deveaux
Fathers & Sons
Marshall
The Avengers: A Visual Journey
Self
Def by Temptation
Minister Garth
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
Self
Johnny Suede
B-Bop
Unicorn Store
The Salesman
Magic Sticks
Bum
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Nick Fury (archive footage)
Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed
Self
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Samaritan
Foley
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
Farce of the Penguins
Narrador (voz)
Eddie Murphy Raw
Eddie's Uncle
The Return of Superfly
Nate Cabot
Trees Lounge
Wendell
School Daze
Leeds
My Date with Drew
Self (uncredited)
An Audience with Adele
Self
Man of War
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Self
Mr. Incredible and Pals
Frozone (commentary voice)
Dead Man Out
Calvin Fredricks
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Narrator
Common Ground
Rev. Bob McClair
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
Tenpenny (voice)
The Trial of the Moke
Johnson Whittaker
Critic
Self
Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel
Self
Morris Stokes
Morris Stokes
Just Play Dead
Jack Wolfe
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson (voice)
Shaquille O'Neal: Larger than Life
Narrator (voice)
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
Self
Hail Caesar
Mailman
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
The Janitor
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
John Travolta: The Inside Story
Self
The Search for One-eye Jimmy
Colonel Ron
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
Narrator
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
Self
The N Word
Self
Go the F**k to Sleep
Narrator (voice)
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World
Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Presenter/Self
Everything Is Samuel L. Jackson's Fault
Self
All Saints: The Video
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Head Games
Eating You Alive
Self
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
Self
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story
Elmo McElroy (archive footage)
Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace
Everett Hatcher
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Narrator / Host
Young Jeezy: A Hustlerz Ambition
Narrator
NFL Explained: Super Bowl LIX Apple Music Halftime Show
Uncle Sam
Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live
The Displaced Person
Sulk
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
Self (archive footage)
On the Shoulders of Giants
The Beast
Comic Books & Superheroes
Self
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special
Self
50 Films to See Before You Die
Self
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Richard Greener
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
Self
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
Mr. Simpson
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
self
Shaft: Still the Man
Self
The Honest Liar
Nick DeFranco
In the Land of the Free...
Narrator
Heavy Rain
Himself
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Self
Hollywood Legenden
Self
Any Given Wednesday
Willie Nutter
Creating a King: Summoning a God
Self
The 100 Greatest Films
Self
Together for Days
Stan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
George
Mais Bastidores de Hollywood
Self
Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Host
Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Honor Deferred
Narrator
The Daily Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
An Officer of the Law
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Afro Samurai the Movie
The View
Self
The View
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest Host
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Leute heute
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Parkinson
Self
Today
Self
Circus Halligalli
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Self
The Early Show
Self
Some Good News
Voice Over
Amend: The Fight for America
Self
The Henry Rollins Show
Talking Bad
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self