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Michael B. Jordan

Michael Bakari Jordan is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and 2023, People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2020, and in 2020 was ranked 15th on The New York Times list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century.

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Michael B. Jordan is an American actor born in Santa Ana on February 9, 1987. He works as a film, television, and voice actor, with a career beginning in 1999. Jordan resides in Newark and Los Angeles. He speaks American English and is in a relationship with Lori Harvey.

His notable works include the films Black Panther, Creed, and Fruitvale Station, as well as the television series Friday Night Lights. He is known for his roles as Adonis Creed and John Clark. Jordan has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. He is also recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection.

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Santa Ana, California, USA

Michael Bakari Jordan (/bɑːˈkɑːri/ bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and…

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Miami Vice '85 — Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs2028
The Thomas Crown Affair — Thomas Crown2027
Swapped — Ollie (voice)2026
Sinners — Smoke / Stack2025
Dancing with the Devil: The Making of Sinners — Self2025
Number One on the Call Sheet — Self2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self2025
Hot Ones Versus — Self2024
Creed: Shinjidai — Adonis Creed (voice)2023
Creed III — Adonis Creed2023

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Instance of: human
Family name: Jordan
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Santa Ana
Occupation: film director
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: American English
Award: Academy Award for Best Actor
Notable work: The Wire
Hair colour: black hair
Image: Michael B Jordan - Sinners (cropped).jpg
Height: 1.89
Residence: Los Angeles

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Commons category: Michael B. Jordan
date of birth: 1987-02-09
start of work period: 1999-00-00
social media followers: 26200000
name in native language: Michael B. Jordan
different from: Michael Jordan
unmarried partner: Lori Harvey
sexual orientation: heterosexuality
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor

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Jordan initially gained recognition in television, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002). He starred in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). He later starred in and produced the HBO television film Fahrenheit 451 (2018), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

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