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Samuel L. Jackson

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Samuel L. Jackson

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Also known as Sam Jackson, Sam L Jackson, Sam L. Jackson, Sam Leroy Jackson

American actor (born 1948)

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Samuel L. Jackson is an American person whose professional career began in 1972. He has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. His work includes seven titles, such as *Jackson's international almanac*, *Kung Fu Panda Coloring Book*, *John Henry*, *Frankenweenie Coloring Book*, and *Avatar the Last Airbender Coloring Book*. Additionally, he is associated with five works listed in Crossref.

Jackson’s musical contributions are tagged with blues, Soundtrack, spoken word, actors, and pulp fiction. He has accumulated 745,135 plays and 177,452 listeners on Last.fm. Similar artists include Annibale e i Cantori Moderni, Christopher Young, Scott Bomar, Samuel L. Jackson And John Travolta, and Brad Fiedel.

Born on December 21, 1948, Jackson has a net worth of 150,000,000. He maintains an official website and has 9,143,871 social media followers. His profile is referenced by 2,135 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Jackson's international almanac
  • Kung Fu Panda Coloring Book
  • John Henry
  • Frankenweenie Coloring Book
  • Avatar the Last Airbender Coloring Book

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1948-12-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
177,511
Total plays
745,376

Tags

bluesSoundtrackspoken wordactorspulp fiction

Similar artists

Annibale e i Cantori ModerniChristopher YoungScott BomarSamuel L. Jackson And John TravoltaBrad Fiedel

Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor and film producer. In 1991, after gaining critical acclaim for his role in Jungle Fever, he appeared in films such as Goodfellas, Patriot Games, Amos & Andrew, True Romance and Jurassic Park. In 1994 he was cast as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction, and his performance received several award nominations and critical acclaim. Jackson has since appeared in over 100 films including Die Hard with a Vengeance <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Samuel+L.+Jackson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Samuel L. Jackson

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation

    · 1992 · cited 21,692x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,854x

  3. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

    · 2005 · cited 18,716x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  5. 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 15,951x

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer. He is one of the most widely recognized actors of his generation. The films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed more than $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time. In 2022, he received the Academy Honorary Award as "a cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated across genres and generations and audiences worldwide".

Jackson made his professional theater debut in Mother Courage and Her Children in 1980 at The Public Theater in New York City. From 1981 to 1983, he originated the role of Private Louis Henderson in Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play off-Broadway. He also originated the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson in 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theatre. He portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the Broadway play The Mountaintop (2011). He returned to Broadway in the 2022 revival of The Piano Lesson playing Doaker Charles, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel L. Jackson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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