
Samuel L. Jackson
Known for Acting · 335 credits
- Born
- 1948-12-21 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Also known as
- Samuel Leroy Jackson
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
TV Shows (81)

The Boys
2019
as Xander the Shark (voice)

Law & Order
1990
as Attorney Louis Taggert

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self

The Daily Show
1996
as Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest / Jules Winnfield (archive footage)

Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self

Conan
2010
as Self - Guest

The Colbert Report
2005

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self - Guest

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
as Nick Fury

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as An Officer of the Law / Self

The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest

Tulsa King
2022
as Russell Lee Washington Jr.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Mace Windu (voice) (archive sound)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest / Self - Guest Host

Leute heute
1997
as Self

Great Performances
1971
as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter

What If...?
2021
as Nick Fury (voice) / Sir Fury (voice)

Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self

Bambi
1948
as Self

The Boondocks
2005
as Rummy (voice)

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self

MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
as Self - Presenter

Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Nick Fury (archive footage) (uncredited)

Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self / Self - Presenter

Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The Mayor (voice)

Spenser: For Hire
1985

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
as Nick Fury (voice)

The Proud Family
2001
as Joseph (voice)

Parkinson
1998
as Self

Extras
2005
as Samuel L. Jackson

TRL
1998

Today
1952
as Self

Secret Invasion
2023
as Nick Fury

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
as Brother Elvis

HBO First Look
1992

The Movies That Made Us
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Ghostwriter
1992
as Reggie Jenkins

Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009
as Self

Staged
2020
as Sam

Circus Halligalli
2013

Afro Samurai
2007
as Afro Samurai / Ninja Ninja (voice)

The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self

The American Revolution
2025
as Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)

Iconoclasts
2005
as Self
Movies (254)

Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as Nick Fury (uncredited)

The Avengers
2012
as Nick Fury

Pulp Fiction
1994
as Jules Winnfield

xXx
2002
as Agent Augustus Gibbons

Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Nick Fury

Iron Man 2
2010
as Nick Fury

Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
as Nick Fury

GoodFellas
1990
as Stacks Edwards

Iron Man
2008
as Nick Fury (uncredited)

Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
as Nick Fury

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
as Rufus

The Incredibles
2004
as Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)

Django Unchained
2012
as Stephen

Kong: Skull Island
2017
as Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard

Thor
2011
as Nick Fury (uncredited)

xXx: Return of Xander Cage
2017
as Agent Augustus Gibbons

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Mace Windu

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Mace Windu

The Garfield Movie
2024
as Vic (voice)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
as Mace Windu (voice)

Captain Marvel
2019
as Nick Fury

Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015
as Valentine

Incredibles 2
2018
as Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Mace Windu

The Hateful Eight
2015
as Major Marquis Warren

Captain America: The First Avenger
2011
as Nick Fury

Jurassic Park
1993
as Arnold

Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004
as Rufus

True Romance
1993
as Big Don

Oldboy
2013
as Chaney

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
as Nick Fury

Glass
2019
as Elijah Price / Mr. Glass

The Marvels
2023
as Nick Fury

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
as Barron

The Legend of Tarzan
2016
as George Washington Williams

Afterburn
2025
as Valentine

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Zeus Carver

xXx: State of the Union
2005
as Agent Augustus Gibbons

The Negotiator
1998
as Lt. Danny Roman

A Time to Kill
1996
as Carl Lee Hailey

Unbreakable
2000
as Elijah Price

Turbo
2013
as Whiplash (voice)

The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017
as Darius Kincaid

RoboCop
2014
as Pat Novak

Cleaner
2007
as Tom Cutler

Deep Blue Sea
1999
as Russell Franklin

Hostel
2006
as Jules Winnfield (archive footage)

Argylle
2024
as Alfie

Jumper
2008
as Roland

Jackie Brown
1997
as Ordell Robbie

Coming to America
1988
as Hold-Up Man

Coach Carter
2005
as Ken Carter

Unthinkable
2010
as Henry Harold 'H' Humphries

The Protégé
2021
as Moody

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
as Darius Kincaid

Basic
2003
as Drill Sgt. SFC Nathan West

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022
as Jimbo (voice)

1408
2007
as Gerald Olin

The Other Guys
2010
as P.K. Highsmith

Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021
as Marcus Banks

Shaft
2000
as John Shaft

Astro Boy
2009
as Zog (voice)

Big Game
2014
as US President William Alan Moore

Shaft
2019
as John Shaft

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Mace Windu (voice)

Snakes on a Plane
2006
as Neville Flynn

Sphere
1998
as Dr. Harry Adams

Menace II Society
1993
as Tat Lawson

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Mitch Henessey

S.W.A.T.
2003
as Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson

Out of Sight
1998
as Hejira Henry (uncredited)

The Man
2005
as Derrick Vann

The Banker
2020
as Joe Morris

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)

The Exorcist III
1990
as Dream Blind Man

The Unholy Trinity
2025
as St. Christopher

Patriot Games
1992
as Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson

Do the Right Thing
1989
as Mister Señor Love Daddy

Juice
1992
as Trip

Twisted
2004
as John Mills

Cell
2016
as Thomas 'Tom' McCourt

Ragtime
1981
as Gang Member No. 2

Sea of Love
1989
as Black Guy

One Eight Seven
1997
as Trevor Garfield

Barely Lethal
2015
as Hardman

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
as Self

Black Snake Moan
2006
as Lazarus

Changing Lanes
2002
as Doyle Gipson

Afro Samurai: Resurrection
2009
as Afro / Ninja-Ninja (voice)

Zambezia
2012
as Tendai (voice)

The 51st State
2001
as Elmo McElroy

Lakeview Terrace
2008
as Abel Turner

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Wes Luger

Incredibles 3
2028
as Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)

The Piano Lesson
2024
as Doaker Charles
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Hard Eight
1997
as Jimmy

Rules of Engagement
2000
as Col. Terry L. Childers

Trees Lounge
1996
as Wendell

The Last Full Measure
2020
as Takoda

Damaged
2024
as Dan Lawson

Kite
2014
as Lieutenant Karl Aker

White Sands
1992
as Greg Meeker

Fresh
1994
as Sam

Life Itself
2018
as Self

Chi-Raq
2015
as Dolmedes

The Kill Room
2023
as Gordon

Death to 2020
2020
as Dash Bracket

The Spirit
2008
as Octopus

Losing Isaiah
1995
as Kadar Lewis

School Daze
1988
as Leeds

Arena
2011
as Logan

One World: Together at Home
2020
as Self

The N Word
2006
as Self

The Red Violin
1998
as Charles Morritz (Montréal)

Reasonable Doubt
2014
as Clinton Davis

The Great Beyond
2026

Jungle Fever
1991
as Gator Purify

Fluke
1995
as Rumbo (voice)
About 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 t… With 335 credits spanning from 1944 to 2028, Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in 254 films and 81 TV shows.
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Most Popular Samuel L. Jackson Movies
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018) — as Nick Fury (uncredited)
- The Avengers (2012) — as Nick Fury
- Pulp Fiction (1994) — as Jules Winnfield
- xXx (2002) — as Agent Augustus Gibbons
- Avengers: Endgame (2019) — as Nick Fury
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