Samuel L. Jackson

Acting · 9.2 popularity

Age

Movies

256

Born: December 21, 1948
From: Washington, D.C., USA

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).

Works

256 films

Spider-Man: Far From Home

20197.4

Avengers: Infinity War

20188.2

The Avengers

20128.1

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Iron Man

20087.7

Avengers: Age of Ultron

20157.3

Pulp Fiction

19948.5

Django Unchained

20128.2

Iron Man 2

20106.9

Thor

20116.8

GoodFellas

19908.5

Captain Marvel

20196.8

Inglourious Basterds

20098.2

The Incredibles

20047.7

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

20196.3

The Marvels

20235.9

Captain America: The First Avenger

20117.0

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

20176.1

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

20147.7

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

20057.5

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

19996.6

Kingsman: The Secret Service

20157.6

Incredibles 2

20187.5

xXx

20026.0

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

20118.1

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

19957.3

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

20047.9

Jurassic Park

19938.0

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

20026.6

Kong: Skull Island

20176.6

The Hateful Eight

20157.8

The Garfield Movie

20247.0

True Romance

19937.5

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

20166.8

The Legend of Tarzan

20165.9

Coming to America

19886.9

Deep Blue Sea

19996.0

The Hitman's Bodyguard

20176.9

Jackie Brown

19977.4

Glass

20196.7

The Other Guys

20106.3

Unbreakable

20007.1

Coach Carter

20057.6

The Negotiator

19987.1

A Time to Kill

19967.4

The Banker

20207.6

Patriot Games

19926.7

Jumper

20086.2

Argylle

20246.0

RoboCop

20145.9

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

20216.6

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

20215.9

Turbo

20136.3

1408

20076.7

Astro Boy

20096.3

S.W.A.T.

20036.2

xXx: State of the Union

20055.1

The Protégé

20216.5

Afterburn

20256.3

Oldboy

20135.9

Unthinkable

20106.8

Snakes on a Plane

20065.5

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

20086.2

The Long Kiss Goodnight

19966.6

Sphere

19986.1

Cleaner

20076.1

Big Game

20145.5

Sea of Love

19896.6

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

20226.6

Shaft

20006.0

Out of Sight

19986.7

Do the Right Thing

19897.8

Life Itself

20187.2

Changing Lanes

20026.3

Shaft

20196.5

Menace II Society

19937.5

Cell

20164.7

The Unholy Trinity

20256.3

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

19936.1

The Exorcist III

19906.3

The Spirit

20084.8

The Man

20055.8

Zambezia

20126.2

Rules of Engagement

20006.2

Meeting Evil

20125.3

Basic

20036.5

Barely Lethal

20155.7

Hard Eight

19976.8

Juice

19927.2

The Kill Room

20235.9

Twisted

20045.6

No Good Deed

20025.4

Black Snake Moan

20066.8

The Last Full Measure

20207.3

One Eight Seven

19976.7

Reasonable Doubt

20145.8

The Great Beyond

2027

Jungle Fever

19916.4

Lakeview Terrace

20086.0

The 51st State

20016.1

Fresh

19947.2

The Piano Lesson

20245.8

The Sunset Limited

20117.2

Kiss of Death

19955.7

Arena

20115.2

Fluke

19957.1

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Mais Bastidores de Hollywood

2006

Death to 2020

20206.5

Freedomland

20065.2

Jackie Brown: How It Went Down

20027.7

White Sands

19925.9

Damaged

20245.6

Kite

20144.3

Trees Lounge

19966.9

School Daze

19885.7

Eve's Bayou

19976.4

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

20105.8

The Red Violin

19987.4

One World: Together at Home

20207.1

Afro Samurai: Resurrection

20096.9

I Am Not Your Negro

20177.7

Amos & Andrew

19935.5

Mother and Child

20096.6

Resurrecting the Champ

20076.3

Just Play Dead

2026

Home of the Brave

20065.4

African Cats

20117.3

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

20146.9

Losing Isaiah

19956.5

Soul Men

20086.1

Forever Hollywood

19998.3

Unicorn Store

20175.9

The Great White Hype

19965.2

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

20141.5

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac

20128.1

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion

20235.2

The Exterminator

19805.5

QT8: The First Eight

20197.2

Mo' Better Blues

19906.5

50 Films to See Before You Die

20068.4

A Shock to the System

19906.5

Betsy's Wedding

19905.7

John Travolta: The Inside Story

20048.3

Eddie Murphy: One Night Only

20126.0

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

20226.2

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

20216.9

Chi-Raq

20155.7

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

20055.0

The Caveman's Valentine

20015.8

Our Friend, Martin

19997.1

Quincy

20187.3

Eddie Murphy Raw

19877.3

The Samaritan

20125.5

Strictly Business

19915.4

Ragtime

19817.0

The Words That Built America

20176.0

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

20177.3

The New Age

19945.6

Against the Wall

19946.1

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

20016.7

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

20106.8

The N Word

20067.2

Johnny Suede

19915.2

In My Country

20045.9

From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

19997.8

The Search for One-eye Jimmy

19945.6

FireAid Benefit Concert

20258.5

Return to Jurassic Park

20116.6

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

19896.9

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?

20239.0

My Date with Drew

20055.9

In the Land of the Free...

2010

Hail Caesar

19943.4

An Audience with Adele

20218.4

On the Shoulders of Giants

20116.3

Fathers & Sons

19925.4

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

20156.3

Farce of the Penguins

20064.2

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

20214.0

Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed

20155.0

The Avengers: A Visual Journey

20128.0

The Return of Superfly

19905.4

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

20035.2

Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes

2007

Eating You Alive

20167.3

Creating a King: Summoning a God

20177.3

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction

20046.8

Def by Temptation

19904.8

The Face is Familiar

20092.0

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

20136.7

Morris Stokes

2026

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

20215.0

Young Jeezy: A Hustlerz Ambition

20115.2

St. Vincent

2026

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

19946.3

Gospel Hill

20084.7

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

20047.2

Afro Samurai the Movie

20072.0

Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles

20076.0

Pulp Fiction: The Facts

20025.0

Shaquille O'Neal: Larger than Life

19966.0

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show

20251.0

Miracle on 42nd Street

2017

Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella

1990

Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace

19915.7

Jumpin' at the Boneyard

19916.3

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

19987.5

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19877.0

Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane

20067.0

The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies

20025.9

Go the F**k to Sleep

20118.0

Comic Books & Superheroes

20018.0

The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision

2024

The Journey of the African-American Athlete

199610.0

RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

2026

Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes

2009

Face of Unity

2014

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

20126.0

Critic

20087.9

Mr. Incredible and Pals

20055.9

Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story

20106.2

All Saints: The Video

19989.0

Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella

199010.0

Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages

2002

Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live

20009.0

Magic Sticks

19876.0

Uneven Fairways

2009

A Night to Die For

19957.0

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration

20169.0

The Trial of the Moke

19786.0

Shaft: Still the Man

20007.5

BaadAsssss Cinema

20026.0

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

20207.9

The 100 Greatest Films

20015.5

The Unauthorized Star Wars Story

1999

The Displaced Person

19777.0

Hollywood Legenden

20044.5

Dead Man Out

19896.6

The Beast

2026

Together for Days

19728.3

The Honest Liar

2026

Snakes on a Blog

2007

American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special

2024

Man of War

2026

Coach Carter The Man Behind the Movie

20058.0

Middle School Confessions

20027.0

The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World

20057.8

Common Ground

19908.5

Everything Is Samuel L. Jackson's Fault

20138.0

Heavy Rain

20105.5

Any Given Wednesday

20006.3

Head Games

2026

Honor Deferred

2006

Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

2017

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

20078.5