Celebrity Biographies
Samuel L Jackson
He is afraid of villains and is capable of standing out in any movie, no matter how small his role. A worker like few others, according to a study, the sum of the collection of his films makes him the highest grossing actor in history.
Born on December 21, 1948 in the US capital, Samuel Leroy Jackson suffered from his parents’ divorce as a child. He grew up with his mother in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he learned to play the trumpet in school. He received a BA in Drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he met Spike Lee . In addition, he co-founded the theater group “Just Us Theater”, with which he made his first acting steps.
He made his screen debut with a minimal role in the forgotten drama Together for Days . Little by little he lavished himself on small roles in successful films such as Ragtime , The Prince of Zamunda , Melody of Seduction , Goodfellas , Jurassic Park , Point-Blank Love and various films by his old acquaintance Spike Lee, such as Do What You Must , The more, the better or Wild fever , with which he began to be known. From the beginning of his career, Samuel L. Jackson has distinguished himself as a very prolific actor, who always works on his roles, however small they may be.
In 1980, he married LaTanya Richardson , with whom he had a daughter, Zoe, born in 1982. He has neither been divorced nor does he appear much in gossip magazines, which is not usually very common for big Hollywood stars.
From the beginning of Jackson’s career, his work on Fresh stands out , where he was the father of the main boy, who gives him life lessons through chess. He was already a great actor with the potential to succeed. He established himself definitively very shortly after, as the gunslinger Jules Winnfield, who went with his partner Vincent Vega ( John Travolta ) to liquidate three guys in Pulp Fiction . The moment in which he asks one of his victims if he reads the Bible and recites a passage from the Book of Ezekiel for him, went down in movie history.
Catapulted to the top, Samuel L. Jackson was a memorable companion to Bruce Willis in Die Hard 3. Vengeance , and was involved in films such as A Time to Kill , Sphere , Negotiator , Deep Blue Sea , Rules of Engagement , Unexpected Twist , SWAT: Harrelson’s Men , Coach Carter , Jumper , The Spirit , Basic , Shaft , Snakes on the Plane. He can do four or five movies in a good year. He highlights his work as the frail prophet Elijah, in The Unbreakable , again (chances of life) with Willis.
Passionate about Star Wars , he himself asked for a role in the new trilogy, and George Lucas made him the Jedi Mace Windu, in The Phantom Menace , Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith , although his appearances are limited. minimum.
He is also the fetish actor of his great discoverer, Tarantino, who gave him a leading role, the mobster for whom the leading stewardess smuggles currency, inJackie Brown . In addition, in Kill Bill Volume 2 he made a small cameo, and rolls at his command Django Unchained , where he will have a secondary role.
Samuel L. Jackson is also the face of Nick Fury, an emblematic Marvel character who recruits superheroes to form the supergroup The Avengers . Prior to the Joss Whedon directed film , Jackson has appeared briefly as Fury in Iron Man , Iron Man 2 , Thor and Captain America , and it’s been rumored that he could star in his own film.