Jeffrey Wright
Actor
Birth Date: December 7, 1965
Age: 57 years old
Birth Place: Washington, D.C.
After developing a prolific and acclaimed career on the stage, actor Jeffrey Wright quietly worked his way into the public consciousness in chameleon-like fashion, playing a wide range of roles in features and on television. Though he spent several years honing his craft off-Broadway and in regional theater, Wright staked his reputation with a Tony Award-winning performance in the widely acclaimed play, "Angels in America: Perestroika," which he later reprised almost a decade later in the highly lauded HBO miniseries. In between the play and the six-part movie, Wright built a resume that included deft performances as such divergent historical figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as an array of strong supporting roles in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" (1998) and "Shaft" (2000). After earning an Emmy for "Angels in America," Wright had finally broken through to the mainstream, earning meatier parts in "Syriana" (2005), "Casino Royale" (2006) and "W" (2008). The versatile actor continued to genre hop, jumping from the musical biopic "Cadillac Records" (2008) to the sci-fi thriller "Source Code" (2011) to the prescient political drama "The Ides of March" (2011) with impressive ease. During this period, he also gained mainstream success in the blockbuster "The Hunger Games" franchise, Pixar hit "The Good Dinosaur" (2015) and science-fiction cable drama "Westworld" (HBO 2016- ). While not the marquee draw of some of his contemporaries, Wright could always be counted upon to deliver a performance on par with the very best.
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Bill Russell: LegendStream
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Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
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American Fiction
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2023
Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesStream
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GMA3: What You Need to Know
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2020
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J.D.
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Green Eggs and Ham
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2019
Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
Running For His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story
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2016
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2016
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Charles Ogletree
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2015
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2015
The Good Dinosaur
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2015
Saving My Tomorrow
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2014
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2014
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1Stream
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2013
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2013
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2012
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2012
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Finding Your RootsStream
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Ernest & Celestine
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2012
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2011
Source CodeStream
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2011
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2011
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William Black
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2011
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2010
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2009
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Felix Leiter
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2008
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2007
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2007
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2006
Lady in the Water
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2006
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2005
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2005
Sam Cooke: Legend
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Dr. Walter Cofield
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Al Melvin
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Angels In AmericaStream
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Belize
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Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton
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Eye See You
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Kickin' It: With Byron Allen
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1996
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1994
Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues
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1993
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Jeffrey Wright
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HBO’s ‘O.G.’: Jeffrey Wright on What It Was Like Filming in a Real Prison
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