1. Jeffrey Wright was born on December 7,1965 and is an American actor.
32 Facts About Jeffrey Wright
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Jeffrey Wright has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Jeffrey Wright reprised his role in the acclaimed 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Jeffrey Wright's first starring film role was as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat.
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Jeffrey Wright acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch and Asteroid City, and has played Peoples Hernandez in Shaft, Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and No Time to Die, Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, and Jim Gordon in The Batman.
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Jeffrey Wright received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in American Fiction.
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Jeffrey Wright earned acclaim for his role as Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and robot programmer Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld, the latter of which earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Jeffrey Wright appeared as Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last of Us Part II and the Watcher in the Marvel Studios animated series What If.
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Jeffrey Wright was born on December 7,1965, in Washington, DC.
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Jeffrey Wright's mother is a customs lawyer and his father died when Jeffrey was a child.
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Jeffrey Wright graduated from St Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science, planning to attend law school, but chose instead to study acting.
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Jeffrey Wright had small roles in the films Jumpin' at the Boneyard, Faithful, and Critical Care.
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Jeffrey Wright guest-starred in George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as a fictionalized Sidney Bechet and Homicide: Life on the Street in the early to late 1990s.
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In 1996, Jeffrey Wright starred in his first leading film role, portraying painter Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Basquiat, to critical acclaim.
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Critic Roger Ebert praised Jeffrey Wright as "[giving] a performance of almost mystical opacity".
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Jeffrey Wright starred in Clark Johnson's HBO television film Boycott as Martin Luther King Jr.
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In February 2005, Jeffrey Wright returned to HBO Films in Lackawanna Blues.
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Jeffrey Wright reprised the role in Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die.
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In 2007, Jeffrey Wright starred in the alien invasion suspense thriller The Invasion.
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In 2010, Jeffrey Wright played Jacques Cornet in the world premiere run of A Free Man of Color at the Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City.
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Jeffrey Wright played Beetee in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, released in November 2013.
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Jeffrey Wright landed the role of Dr Valentin Narcisse in season 4 of Boardwalk Empire, starting in the fall of 2013.
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Jeffrey Wright portrayed Charles Ogletree in the HBO film Confirmation, and Bernard Lowe in HBO's Westworld, the latter of which earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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In March 2017, Jeffrey Wright appeared in a commercial for Dell Technologies.
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In 2018, Jeffrey Wright acted in six feature films including the legal drama Monster, the drama The Public, the action comedy Game Night and the crime drama Age Out.
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In 2018, Jeffrey Wright produced the HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet, which gives voice to war veterans who, through a USO-sponsored arts workshop at Walter Reed National Military Hospital, discover the power and healing of shared experience to unite and find resilience in the face of post-traumatic stress.
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Jeffrey Wright acted in John Crowley's drama The Goldfinch starring Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Finn Wolfhard.
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Jeffrey Wright starred in the video game The Last of Us Part II as Isaac, the leader of the Washington Liberation Front.
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In 2021, Jeffrey Wright portrayed food writer Roebuck Jeffrey Wright in the film The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson.
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Jeffrey Wright reunited with Anderson portraying General Gibson in the 2023 film Asteroid City.
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In 2004, Jeffrey Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater Amherst College.
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Jeffrey Wright was the chairman and co-founder of the now-defunct Taia, LLC and Taia Peace Foundation and Vice Chairman of Taia Lion Resources, Inc, a gold-exploration company which sought to create a sustainable and conflict-free gold mining operation in Sierra Leone.