Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Acting

Born December 21, 1948 · Washington, D.C., USA

Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grosse…

Known for

The Daily Show

The Daily Show

1996

Law & Order

Law & Order

1990

Late Show with David Letterman

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

The Boys

The Boys

2019

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

Acting(338)

2027The Great Beyond

2026Just Play DeadJack Wolfe

2026Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of AmericaVoiceover (voice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

2025The American RevolutionCaesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)

2025AfterburnValentine

2025The Unholy TrinitySt. Christopher

2025Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX Halftime ShowUncle Sam

2025FireAid Benefit ConcertSelf

2024The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a VisionSelf

2024The Piano LessonDoaker Charles

2024American Music Awards 50th Anniversary SpecialSelf

2024Fight Night: The Million Dollar HeistFrank Moten

2024The Garfield MovieVic (voice)

2024DamagedDan Lawson

2024ArgylleAlfie

2023The MarvelsNick Fury

2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret InvasionSelf - 'Nick Fury'

2023The Kill RoomGordon

2023Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?self

2023Secret InvasionNick Fury

2023Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil DinosaurNick Fury (voice)

2022Tulsa KingRussell Lee Washington Jr.

2022Is That Black Enough for You?!?Self

2022The Jennifer Hudson ShowSelf - Guest

2022Paws of Fury: The Legend of HankJimbo (voice)

2022The Last Days of Ptolemy GreyPtolemy Grey

2022JANET JACKSON.Self

2022The FixNarrator (voice)

2021An Audience with AdeleSelf

20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf

2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day SpecialNick Fury (archive footage)

2021The ProtégéMoody

2021What If...?Nick Fury (voice)

2021Hitman's Wife's BodyguardDarius Kincaid

2021Spiral: From the Book of SawMarcus Banks

2021Amend: The Fight for AmericaSelf

2021Marvel Studios LegendsNick Fury (archive footage) (uncredited)

2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood LegendSelf (archive footage)

2020Death to 2020Dash Bracket

2020Beyond the Spotlight

2020A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All VoteSelf

2020EnslavedSelf

2020One World: Together at HomeSelf

2020Some Good NewsVoice Over

2020The BankerJoe Morris

2020The Last Full MeasureTakoda

2019Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerMace Windu (voice)

2019The Movies That Made UsSelf (archive footage)

2019QT8: The First EightSelf (uncredited)

2019Tamron HallSelf - Guest

2019The BoysXander the Shark (voice)

2019Spider-Man: Far From HomeNick Fury

2019ShaftJohn Shaft

2019The Hateful EightMajor Marquis Warren

2019Avengers: EndgameNick Fury

2019Captain MarvelNick Fury

2019GlassElijah Price / Mr. Glass

2018Life ItselfSelf

2018Incredibles 2Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)

2018Avengers: Infinity WarNick Fury (uncredited)

2017Miracle on 42nd StreetSelf

2017Unicorn StoreThe Salesman

2017The Hitman's BodyguardDarius Kincaid

2017Carpool Karaoke: The SeriesSelf

2017Creating a King: Summoning a GodSelf

2017The Words That Built AmericaSelf - Reader: Declaration of Independence

2017John Travolta, le miraculé d'HollywoodSelf - Actor (archive footage)

2017Kong: Skull IslandLieutenant Colonel Preston Packard

2017Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular SongHost

2017I Am Not Your NegroNarrator (voice)

2017xXx: Return of Xander CageAgent Augustus Gibbons

2016Eating You AliveSelf

2016BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama CelebrationSelf

2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenBarron

2016CellThomas 'Tom' McCourt

2016The Legend of TarzanGeorge Washington Williams

2015The Hateful EightMajor Marquis Warren

2015Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber DuelSelf

2015Chi-RaqDolmedes

2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest

2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf

2015Kingsman: The Secret Service RevealedSelf

2015Barely LethalHardman

2015Avengers: Age of UltronNick Fury

2015Kingsman: The Secret ServiceValentine

2014Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsSelf

2014Big GameUS President William Alan Moore

2014Life's Essentials with Ruby DeeSelf

2014KiteLieutenant Karl Aker

2014Captain America: The Winter SoldierNick Fury

2014Marvel Studios: Assembling a UniverseSelf

2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest

2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf

2014RoboCopPat Novak

2014Reasonable DoubtClinton Davis

2014Face of UnitySelf

2013OldboyChaney

2013Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Nick Fury

2013Everything Is Samuel L. Jackson's FaultSelf

2013Talking BadSelf

2013TurboWhiplash (voice)

2013Circus Halligalli

2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of FilmmakingSelf

2012Django UnchainedStephen

2012Eddie Murphy: One Night OnlySelf

2012The Avengers: A Visual JourneySelf

2012Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic UniverseSelf

2012ZambeziaTendai (voice)

2012The AvengersNick Fury

2012Finding Your RootsSelf

2012The SamaritanFoley

2012I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie MacSelf

2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen(archive footage)

2012Meeting EvilRichie

2011Young Jeezy: A Hustlerz AmbitionNarrator

2011ProhibitionReader (voice)

2011The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf

2011Captain America: The First AvengerNick Fury

2011Dynamo: Magician ImpossibleSelf

2011Go the F**k to SleepNarrator (voice)

2011ThorNick Fury (uncredited)

2011African CatsNarrator (voice)

2011Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody AffairRufus

2011The Sunset LimitedBlack

2011On the Shoulders of Giants

2011Return to Jurassic ParkSelf

2010ConanSelf - Guest

2010Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly StoryElmo McElroy (archive footage)

2010Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space OdysseyFear (voice)

2010The Other GuysP.K. Highsmith

2010With Great Power: The Stan Lee StorySelf

2010UnthinkableHenry Harold 'H' Humphries

2010Iron Man 2Nick Fury

2010In the Land of the Free...Narrator

2010Heavy RainHimself

2009Mother and ChildPaul

2009Astro BoyZog (voice)

2009Inglourious BasterdsNarrator (voice) (uncredited)

2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest

2009Alan Carr: Chatty ManSelf

2009The Face is FamiliarHimself

2009Afro Samurai: ResurrectionAfro / Ninja-Ninja (voice)

2009Uneven FairwaysNarrator

2009Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the ScenesSelf

2008The SpiritOctopus

2008Soul MenLouis Hinds

2008Star Wars: The Clone WarsMace Windu (voice) (archive sound)

2008Lakeview TerraceAbel Turner

2008Star Wars: The Clone WarsMace Windu (voice)

2008Iron ManNick Fury (uncredited)

2008JumperRoland

2008Gospel HillPaul Malcolm

2007Afro Samurai the Movie

2007The WarNarrator (voice)

2007CleanerTom Cutler

2007Respect Yourself: The Stax Records StoryNarrator

20071408Gerald Olin

2007Resurrecting the ChampChamp

2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf

2007Snakes on a BlogSelf

2007Afro SamuraiAfro Samurai / Ninja Ninja (voice)

2007Snakes on a Plane: Meet the ReptilesSelf

2007Snakes on a Set: Behind the ScenesSelf

2006Black Snake MoanLazarus

2006Home of the BraveWilliam Marsh

2006Farce of the PenguinsNarrator (voice)

2006Mais Bastidores de HollywoodSelf

2006Snakes on a PlaneNeville Flynn

200650 Films to See Before You DieSelf

2006The Henry Rollins Show

2006FreedomlandLorenzo Council

2006Honor DeferredNarrator

2006The N WordSelf

2006Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a PlaneSelf

2005IconoclastsSelf

2005The Boondocks

2005The Colbert Report

2005The ManDerrick Vann

2005My Date with DrewSelf (uncredited)

2005ExtrasSamuel L. Jackson

2005Coach Carter The Man Behind the MovieSelf

2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithMace Windu

2005xXx: State of the UnionAgent Augustus Gibbons

2005Mr. Incredible and PalsFrozone (commentary voice)

2005The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the WorldSelf

2005George Lucas: Creating an EmpirePresenter/Self

2005Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonNarrator (voice)

2005Coach CarterKen Carter

2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonAn Officer of the Law

2004Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The IntroductionTenpenny (voice)

2004The IncrediblesLucius Best / Frozone (voice)

2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonJack Johnson (voice)

2004In My CountryLangston Whitfield

2004John Travolta: The Inside StorySelf

2004Kill Bill: Vol. 2Rufus

2004TwistedJohn Mills

2004America Beyond the Color LineSelf

2004Hollywood LegendenSelf

2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf

2003S.W.A.T.Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson

2003Working Shakespeare

2003BasicDrill Sgt. SFC Nathan West

2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf

2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest

2002Jackie Brown: How It Went DownSelf

2002Pulp Fiction: The FactsSelf (archive footage)

2002Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages

2002BaadAsssss CinemaSelf

2002xXxAgent Augustus Gibbons

2002No Good DeedJack Friar

2002The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the MoviesSelf - Narrator

2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the ClonesMace Windu

2002Changing LanesDoyle Gipson

2002Middle School ConfessionsHost

2001The 51st StateElmo McElroy

2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeSelf

2001The 100 Greatest FilmsSelf

2001The Proud FamilyJoseph (voice)

2001Comic Books & SuperheroesSelf

2001The Caveman's ValentineRomulus

2000UnbreakableElijah Price

2000ShaftJohn Shaft

2000Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live

2000Rules of EngagementCol. Terry L. Childers

2000Any Given WednesdayWillie Nutter

2000Shaft: Still the ManSelf

1999The Early ShowSelf

1999Deep Blue SeaRussell Franklin

1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & MagicNarrator / Host

1999The Unauthorized Star Wars StorySelf

1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom MenaceMace Windu

1999Our Friend, MartinTurner (voice)

1999Forever HollywoodSelf

1998The Red ViolinCharles Morritz (Montréal)

1998All Saints: The VideoHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998The NegotiatorLt. Danny Roman

1998Out of SightHejira Henry (uncredited)

1998Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen'sSelf

1998SphereDr. Harry Adams

1998ParkinsonSelf

1997Jackie BrownOrdell Robbie

1997Eve's BayouLouis Batiste

1997The ViewSelf

1997One Eight SevenTrevor

1997Leute heuteSelf

1997Hard EightJimmy

1996The Long Kiss GoodnightMitch Henessey

1996A Time to KillCarl Lee Hailey

1996The Daily ShowSelf - Guest

1996Shaquille O'Neal: Larger than LifeNarrator (voice)

1996Trees LoungeWendell

1996The Great White HypeRev. Fred Sultan

1996The Journey of the African-American AthleteNarrator

1995The Frank Skinner ShowSelf

1995FlukeRumbo (voice)

1995Die Hard: With a VengeanceZeus Carver

1995A Night to Die ForSelf - Host

1995Kiss of DeathCalvin Hart

1995Losing IsaiahKadar Lewis

1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildThe Mayor (voice)

1995The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRASelf

1994The Search for One-eye JimmyColonel Ron

1994The New AgeDale Deveaux

1994Pulp FictionJules Winnfield

1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf

1994Hail CaesarMailman

1994Against the WallJamaal

1994Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson WhittakerRichard Greener

1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest

1993True RomanceBig Don

1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf - Guest

1993Jurassic ParkArnold

1993Menace II SocietyTat Lawson

1993Amos & AndrewAndrew Sterling

1993National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1Wes Luger

1992Fathers & SonsMarshall

1992GhostwriterReggie Jenkins

1992HBO First Look

1992MTV Movie & TV AwardsSelf - Presenter

1992Patriot GamesLt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson

1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992White SandsGreg Meeker

1991Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus FaraceEverett Hatcher

1991Strictly BusinessMonroe

1991Jumpin' at the BoneyardMr. Simpson

1991Johnny SuedeB-Bop

1991Jungle FeverGator Purify

1990The Return of SuperflyNate Cabot

1990Law & OrderAttorney Louis Taggert

1990GoodFellasStacks Edwards

1990The Exorcist IIIDream Blind Man

1990Mo' Better BluesMadlock

1990Betsy's WeddingTaxi Dispatcher (Mickey)

1990Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella

1990Common GroundRev. Bob McClair

1990Def by TemptationMinister Garth

1990A Shock to the SystemUlysses

1990Spike & Co. Do It a-CappellaThe Janitor

1989Making 'Do the Right Thing'Self

1989Sea of LoveBlack Guy

1989Do the Right ThingMister Señor Love Daddy

1989Dead Man OutCalvin Fredricks

1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988Coming to AmericaHold-Up Man

1988School DazeLeeds

1987Eddie Murphy RawEddie's Uncle

1987Uncle Tom's CabinGeorge

1987Magic SticksBum

1987The Days and Nights of Molly DoddBrother Elvis

1985Spenser: For Hire

1981RagtimeGang Member No. 2

1980The ExterminatorExtra (uncredited)

1978The Trial of the MokeJohnson Whittaker

1977The Displaced PersonSulk

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host

1972Together for DaysStan

1971Great PerformancesSelf

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter

1953The OscarsSelf

1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee

The Honest LiarNick DeFranco

Morris StokesMorris Stokes

RSC Meets USA: Working ShakespeareSelf

Frisco KingRussell Lee Washington Jr.

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