Samuel L. Jackson

**Samuel L. Jackson** (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. He has starred in many films, including _The Avengers_, _Die Hard with a Vengeance_, _Django Unchained_ and _Pulp Fiction_.

## Life

Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. on December 21, 1948 (Tuesday). He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. During childhood, he had a stuttering problem, which he conquered by developing an affinity for the use of the curse word, _motherfucker_, in his vocabulary. Jackson attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. After joining a local acting group to earn extra points in a class, Jackson found an interest in acting and switched his major. Before graduating in 1972, he co-founded the "Just Us Theatre". Jackson is a sports fan and supports basketball teams Toronto Raptors and the Harlem Globetrotters and soccer club Liverpool FC. In 1980, Jackson married LaTanya Richardson, with whom he has a daughter, Zoe.

Jackson is also a big fan of Star Wars and portrayed the character Mace Windu in _Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace_, _Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones_ and _Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith_. He also reprised his role as Windu, in the animated film _Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie)_ but not for the series. He also portrayed Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in _Iron Man_ (2008), _Iron Man 2_ (2010), _Thor_ (2011), _Captain America: The First Avenger_ (2011), _The Avengers (movie)_ (2012), _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_ (2014), _Avengers: Age of Ultron_ (2015), in two episodes of _Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D_ television series and _Avengers: Infinity War_ (2018). In 2017, Jackson appeared as Colonel Preston Packard in _Kong: Skull Island_. In October 2011, Jackson surpassed Frank Welker as the highest-grossing film actor of all-time.

## Filmography

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|1972|||||||
|Stan||||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1980|||||||
|Julian Fleck||||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1981|||||||
|Wesley Ferdinand||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1987|||||||
|Bum|Credited as Sam Jackson|||||||
|Jon Kelcourse||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1988|||||||
|Hold-Up Man||||||||
|Leeds||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1989|||||||
|Mister Señor Love Daddy|Credited as Sam Jackson|||||||
|Black Guy||||||||
|rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|1990|||||||
|Minister Garth||||||||
|Ulysses||||||||
|Taxi Dispatcher||||||||
|Madlock||||||||
|Blind Dream Man||||||||
|Parnell Steven "Stacks" Edwards||||||||
|Nate Cabot||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1991|||||||
|Monroe||||||||
|Gator Purify||||||||
|Mr. Simpson||||||||
|B-Bop||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1992|||||||
|Trip||||||||
|Robby Jackson||||||||
|Greg Meeker||||||||
|Marshall||||||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|1993|||||||
|Tat Lawson||||||||
|Sgt. Wes Luger||||||||
|Andrew Sterling||||||||
|John Raymond Arnold||||||||
|Big Don||||||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1994|||||||
|Sam||||||||
|Jules Winnfield||||||||
|Dale||||||||
|Mailman||||||||
|Richard Theodore Greener||||||||
|Colonel Ron||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1995|||||||
|Calvin Hart||||||||
|Zeus Carver||||||||
|Kadar Lewis||||||||
|Rumbo (voice)||||||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|1996|||||||
|Rev. Fred Sultan||||||||
|Carl Lee Hailey||||||||
|Mitch Henessey||||||||
|Jimmy||||||||
|Wendell||||||||
|Himself|Used in schools|||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1997|||||||
|Trevor Garfield||||||||
|Louis Batiste|Also producer|||||||
|Ordell Robbie||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1998|||||||
|Harry Adams||||||||
|Lt. Danny Roman||||||||
|Charles Morritz||||||||
|Hejira Henry|Uncredited cameo|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1999|||||||
|Mace Windu||||||||
|Russell Franklin||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2000|||||||
|Col. Terry L. Childers||||||||
|John Shaft II||||||||
|Elijah Price / Mr. Glass||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2001|||||||
|Romulus Ledbetter|Also executive producer|||||||
|Elmo McElroy||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2002|||||||
|Doyle Gipson||||||||
|Mace Windu||||||||
|Agent Augustus Gibbons||||||||
|Jack Friar||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2003|||||||
|Sergeant Nathan West||||||||
|Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson||||||||
|William Candy (voice)|Deleted scene|||||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|2004|||||||
|John Mills||||||||
|Rufus||||||||
|Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)||||||||
|Langston Whitfield||||||||
|Jack Johnson (voice)|rowspan=2|Documentary film||||||
|Himself||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2005|||||||
|Ken Carter||||||||
|Agent Augustus Gibbons||||||||
|Mace Windu||||||||
|Derrick Vann||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2006|||||||
|Lorenzo Council||||||||
|Agent Neville Flynn||||||||
|Dr. Will Marsh||||||||
|Lazarus Woods||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2007|||||||
|Narrator (voice)||||||||
|Gerald Olin||||||||
|Bob Satterfield||||||||
|Tom Cutler||||||||
|rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|2008|||||||
|Agent Roland Cox||||||||
|Nick Fury|Uncredited cameo|||||||
|Mace Windu (voice)||||||||
|Abel Turner||||||||
|Louis Hinds||||||||
|The Octopus||||||||
|Paul Malcolm|Uncredited|||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2009|||||||
|ZOG (voice)||||||||
|Paul||||||||
|Narrator (voice)|Uncredited|||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2010|||||||
|Fear (voice)||||||||
|Henry Harold Humphries||||||||
|Nick Fury||||||||
|Detective PK Highsmith||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2011|||||||
|Narrator (voice)|Documentary film|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Nick Fury|Uncredited cameo||||||
|Cameo||||||||
|Logan||||||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2012|||||||
|Foley||||||||
|Richie||||||||
|Nick Fury||||||||
|Tendai (voice)||||||||
|Stephen||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2013|||||||
|Whiplash (voice)||||||||
|Chaney||||||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|2014|||||||
|Clinton Davis||||||||
|Patrick "Pat" Novak||||||||
|Nick Fury||||||||
|Karl Aker||||||||
|President William Alan Moore||||||||
|Richmond Valentine||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2015|||||||
|Nick Fury||||||||
|Hardman||||||||
|Dolmedes||||||||
|Major Marquis Warren||||||||
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|2016|||||||
|Tom McCourt||||||||
|George Washington Williams||||||||
|Narrator (voice)|Documentary film|||||||
|Mr. Barron||||||||
|Himself|Documentary film|||||||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2017|||||||
|NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons||||||||
|Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard||||||||
|Darius Kincaid||||||||
|The Salesman||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2018|||||||
|Nick Fury|Uncredited cameo|||||||
|Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)||||||||
|Himself||||||||
|rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|2019|||||||
|Elijah Price / Mr. Glass||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Nick Fury|||||||
|Cameo||||||||
|John Shaft II||||||||
|Nick Fury||||||||
|Joe Morris|rowspan="5"|Post-production||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2020|||||||
|Takoda||||||||
|Marcus||||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|TBA|||||||
|Darius Kincaid||||||||
|Jimbo (voice)||||||||
|George Clinton|Filming|||||||

## _Barclays_ adverts

The _Barclays_ campaign is called "Fluent in finance" and designed to be thought provoking, positioning Barclays as money experts. The campaign was created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

There are many 40-second executions for TV, directed by Jonathan Glazer, who also directed the Levi's "odyssey" ad for BBH and the feature film 'Sexy Beast'. The TV work is being supported by poster and press activity.

In the _Barclays_ TV adverts, Samuel L. Jackson walks towards the camera, talking about different elements of money, sometimes with one female celebrity in a close-up shot at the end of the TV adverts, such as Chaka Khan, Sinitta, Madonna, Jamelia, Jennifer Lopez, Irene Cara, Rachel Stevens, Kylie Minogue, Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Beyoncé, Shakira, Jessie J, LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Grant, Zara Larsson, Beverley Knight, Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Clarkson, Dua Lipa, Myleene Klass, Kimberley Walsh, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, Katy Ashworth, Lucy Verasamy, Lisa Scott-Lee, Clare Nasir, Alesha Dixon**,** Claudia Winkleman, Keeley Donovan, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, June Sarpong, Donna Summer, Ellie Goulding, Saira Khan, Gigi Morley, Rihanna, Helen Willetts, Melanie Sykes, Britney Spears, Victoria Hollins, Andrea McLean, Shappi Khorsandi, Rachel Riley, Maya Jama, Laura Tobin, Jenni Falconer, Angellica Bell, or Kemi Majeks.

## Other websites

- Extensive biography of Samuel L. Jackson