Orlando Jones was born on April 10,1968 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
23 Facts About Orlando Jones
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Orlando Jones is known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv, for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz's American Gods.
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Orlando Jones's father was a professional baseball player in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
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Orlando Jones moved to Mauldin, South Carolina, when he was a teen and graduated from Mauldin High School in 1985.
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Orlando Jones scored his first Hollywood job in 1987, writing for the NBC comedy A Different World, on which he had a small guest role in the season five finale.
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Orlando Jones made a brief appearance on the FOX sitcom Herman's Head in 1992.
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Unlike some of his fellow original repertory performers on MADtv, Orlando Jones came to the show with limited sketch comedy experience.
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Orlando Jones was noted for his impressions of Thomas Mikal Ford, Temuera Morrison, Warwick Davis, Danny DeVito, Michael Jai White, Eddie Griffin, and Ice Cube.
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However, Orlando Jones returned to MADtv in 2004 to celebrate its 200th episode.
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In 2006, Orlando Jones decided to return to television as one of the lead characters of ABC's crime drama The Evidence, as Cayman Bishop.
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Orlando Jones has appeared in two episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, the first in 2007 as Chris's substitute teacher and the second in 2008 as Clint Huckstable, an allusion to the character Cliff Huxtable played by Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show.
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Orlando Jones was the co-host of ABC's Crash Course.
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On November 16,2009, it was announced on TV Guide that Orlando Jones had been cast as Marcus Foreman, Eric Foreman's brother on House, appearing in the season six episode "Moving the Chains".
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From 2016 through 2019, Orlando Jones portrayed Mr Nancy, aka the African god Anansi, in the Starz series American Gods.
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Since then, Orlando Jones has appeared in Magnolia, New Jersey Turnpikes and in Harold Ramis' Bedazzled.
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In 2002, Orlando Jones landed the lead role of Daryl Chase in the action-dramedy Double Take, alongside Eddie Griffin, and worked with David Duchovny, Seann William Scott and Julianne Moore in Ivan Reitman's sci-fi comedy, Evolution.
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Orlando Jones was in the 2009 film Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and he appeared as the computer Vox 114 in The Time Machine.
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Orlando Jones appeared in an uncredited cameo and played in Grindhouse Planet Terror.
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In 2011 Orlando Jones appeared in the documentary film Looking for Lenny, in which he talks about Lenny Bruce and freedom of speech.
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In 2012, Orlando Jones starred in Joe Penna's original interactive thriller series Meridian created in conjunction with Fourth Wall Studios.
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Orlando Jones has been featured in many voice acting projects over the years.
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In early April 2013, it was largely thought that Orlando Jones would be taking Tyler Perry's place as Madea.
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In October 2011, Orlando Jones provoked controversy when he joked on Twitter that someone should kill former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.