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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Ahmed Best (born August 19, 1973) is an American voice actor and musician. He rose to prominence in the 2000s for playing the character of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars franchise. He later turned to television, where he reprised his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Robot Chicken Star Wars special. He also created, wrote, directed and produced his own TV show called This Can't Be My Life. He has…
Known for
- I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story — Self (archive footage)2024
- LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy — Darth Jar Jar (voice)2024
- For All Humankind2023
- LIGHT & MAGIC — Self2022
- Jedi Temple Challenge — Jedi Master Kelleran Beq2020
- The Empire Strikes Door2019
- The Mandalorian — Jedi Master Kelleran Beq2019
- W.M.D. — News Reporter2015
- LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out — Jar Jar Binks (voice)2012
- FDR: American Badass! — Curtis2012
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Origin
- [Worldwide]
- Active from
- 1973
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 104
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Rayyan—a web and mobile app for systematic reviews
· 2016 · cited 21,180x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,750x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,231x
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Quotes
- “I was a person who always followed my heart and followed my passion. Like things like money and strategy and all of those things that never really occurred to me. It was just really doing all the things that I love and Stomp was kind of all of it. You know, it allowed me to be an actor, it allowed me to be a drummer, allowed me to be a mover, a martial artist. So, it was one of those serendipitous moments at a wonderful period of time that kind of culminated perfectly.”
- “I’m in there. You can’t have Gollum without Jar Jar. You can’t have the Na’vi in ‘Avatar’ without Jar Jar. You can’t have Thanos or the Hulk without Jar Jar. I was the signal for the rest of this art form, and I’m proud of Jar Jar for that, and I’m proud to be a part of that. I’m in there!”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1973-08-19 ) August 19, 1973 (age 52) , New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Manhattan School of Music
- Occupations
- Actor comedian musician
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Spouse
- Raquel Horsford
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Encyclopedic overview
Ahmed Best (born August 19, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is known for providing the voice and motion capture for the character Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars franchise.
Best likewise collaborated with director George Lucas in three films and seven episodes of the animated show Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production for portraying Jar Jar Binks in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II. He also voices Roux, a powerful mythical being in the video game South of Midnight.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ahmed Best” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.