1. Earnest Lee Hudson was born on December 17,1945 and is an American actor.
28 Facts About Ernie Hudson
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Ernie Hudson is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise.
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Ernie Hudson has acted in the films Leviathan, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Crow, Airheads, The Basketball Diaries, Congo, Miss Congeniality, and The Ron Clark Story.
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From 2022 to 2024, Ernie Hudson appeared as Herbert "Magic" Williams on the NBC drama Quantum Leap.
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Ernie Hudson was born on December 17,1945, in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Ernie Hudson was raised by his maternal grandmother, Arrana Donald.
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Ernie Hudson joined the US Marine Corps immediately after high school but was discharged after only three months on medical grounds due to asthma.
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Ernie Hudson enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills, graduating in 1973.
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Ernie Hudson established the Actors' Ensemble Theatre where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works.
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Ernie Hudson began a doctoral program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities before leaving to appear in a stage production of The Great White Hope.
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Ernie Hudson had various guest roles on television series such as The Dukes of Hazzard and The A-Team.
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Ernie Hudson was on the television series Fantasy Island in a first-season episode as a voodoo man named Jamu.
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Ernie Hudson gained fame playing Winston Zeddemore in the 1984 feature film Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II.
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Ernie Hudson auditioned to reprise the role for the animated series, The Real Ghostbusters, but it was given to Arsenio Hall.
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Ernie Hudson had a major supporting role as the mentally challenged handyman Solomon in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.
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Ernie Hudson appears as the character Munro in Congo and as Police Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow.
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Ernie Hudson switched gears when he played a preacher opening the eyes of a small town's prejudice in the 1950s in A Stranger in the Kingdom.
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Ernie Hudson played Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullock's character in the feature film Miss Congeniality.
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Ernie Hudson is in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Ethon" as Pernaux.
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Ernie Hudson appeared as Reggie in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries.
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Ernie Hudson appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, playing Bill Jenkins, the uncle of Leslie Jones's lead character Pattie Tolan.
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Ernie Hudson called it "a very different show", citing the duality of having to protect people as a member of law enforcement while having unresolved relationships that need to be reconciled.
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Ernie Hudson described himself as being welled by emotions after he put on his jumpsuit and proton pack, as he had previously "accepted that [a film] was never going to happen".
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Ernie Hudson appeared in the 2022 drama film Prisoner's Daughter, alongside Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox.
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On March 8,2022, Ernie Hudson was announced as the co-lead in NBC's Quantum Leap reboot.
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In January 2023, Ernie Hudson guest voiced a character, Grini Millegi, a Dowutin gangster who was an associate of Cid and oversees Riot Racing on the planet Safa Toma, on Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
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Ernie Hudson married his first wife, Jeannie Moore, in 1963, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen.
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In 1985, Ernie Hudson married former flight attendant Linda Kingsberg, and they had two sons, Andrew and Ross.