Born: December 21, 1948 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA
After spending the 1980s playing a
series of drug addict and character parts, Samuel L. Jackson emerged in
the 1990s as one of the most prominent and well-respected actors in Hollywood.
Work on a number of projects, both high-profile and low-key, has given
Jackson ample opportunity to display an ability marked by both remarkable
versatility and smooth intelligence.
Born December 21, 1948, in Washington, D.C., Jackson
was raised by his mother and grandparents in Chattanooga, TN. He attended
Atlanta's Morehouse College, where he was co-founder of Atlanta's black-oriented
Just Us Theater (the name of the company was taken from a famous Richard
Pryor routine). Jackson arrived in New York in 1977, beginning what was
to be a prolific career in film, television, and on the stage. After a
plethora of character roles of varying sizes, Jackson was discovered by
the public in the role of the hero's tempestuous, drug-addict brother
in 1991's Jungle Fever, directed by another Morehouse College alumnus,
Spike Lee. Jungle Fever won Jackson a special acting prize at the Cannes
Film Festival and thereafter his career soared. Confronted with sudden
celebrity, Jackson stayed grounded by continuing to live in the Harlem
brownstone where he'd resided since his stage days.
1994 was a particularly felicitous year for Jackson;
while his appearances in Jurassic Park (1993) and Menace II Society (1993)
were still being seen in second-run houses, he co-starred with John Travolta
as a mercurial hit man in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, a performance
that earned him an Oscar nomination. His portrayal of an embittered father
in the more low-key Fresh earned him additional acclaim. The following
year, Jackson landed third billing in the big-budget Die Hard With a Vengeance
and also starred in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah. His versatility
was put on further display in 1996 with the release of five very different
films: The Long Kiss Goodnight, a thriller in which he co-starred with
Geena Davis as a private detective; an adaptation of John Grisham's A
Time to Kill, which featured him as an enraged father driven to murder;
Steve Buscemi's independent Trees Lounge; The Great White Hype, a boxing
satire in which the actor played a flamboyant boxing promoter; and Hard
Eight, the directorial debut of Paul Thomas Anderson.
After the relative quiet of 1997, which saw Jackson
again collaborate with Tarantino in the critically acclaimed Jackie Brown
and play a philandering father in the similarly acclaimed Eve's Bayou
(which also marked his debut as a producer), the actor lent his talents
to a string of big-budget affairs (an exception being the 1998 Canadian
film The Red Violin). Aside from an unbilled cameo in Out of Sight (1998),
Jackson was featured in leading roles in The Negotiator (1998), Sphere
(1998), and Deep Blue Sea (1999). His prominence in these films added
confirmation of his complete transition from secondary actor to leading
man, something that was further cemented by a coveted role in what was
perhaps the most anticipated film of the decade, Star Wars: Episode I
- The Phantom Menace (1999), the first prequel to George Lucas' Star Wars
trilogy. Jackson followed through on his leading man potential with a
popular remake of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 blaxploitation flick Shaft.
Despite highly publicized squabbling between Jackson and director John
Singleton, the film was a successful blend of homage, irony, and action;
it became one of the rare character-driven hits in the special effects-laden
summer of 2000.
From hard-case Shaft to fragile as glass, Jackson
once again hoodwinked audiences by playing against his usual super-bad
persona in director M. Night Shyamalan's eagerly anticipated follow-up
to The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable (2000). In his role as Bruce Willis' brittle,
frail antithesis, Jackson proved that though he can talk trash and break
heads with the best of them, he's always compelling to watch no matter
what the role may be. Next taking a rare lead as a formerly successful
pianist turned schizophrenic on the trail of a killer in the little-seen
The Caveman's Valentine, Jackson turned in yet another compelling and
sympathetic performance. Following an instance of road rage opposite Ben
Affleck in Changing Lanes (2002), Jackson stirred film geek controversy
upon wielding a purple lightsaber in the eagerly anticipated Star Wars
II: Attack of the Clones. Despite rumors that the color of the lightsaber
may have had some sort of mythical undertone, Jackson laughingly assured
fans that it was a simple matter of his suggesting to Lucas that a purple
lightsaber would simply "look cool," though he was admittedly
surprised to see that Lucas had obliged him Jackson eventually saw the
final print. A few short months later filmgoers would find Jackson recruiting
a muscle-bound Vin Diesel for a dangerous secret mission in the spy thriller
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