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7 December 1965 6'
Carmen Ejogo (August 2000 - present) 2 children
JEFFREY WRIGHT is recognized as one of the most talented and
versatile actors of his generation. He recently won Emmy, Golden Globe and Black Reel Awards
for his supporting role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in
America. He also won a Tony Award for his performance in the stage
version of Angels in America: Perestroika.
Wright previously starred as Martin Luther King in the HBO production Boycott,
for which he won the AFI Actor of the Year Award for Male Actor in a Movie or Miniseries.
Most recently, he co-starred in Jim Jarmusch’s
Broken Flowers, Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate,
and he played photographer Howard Bingham in Michael Mann’s Ali. He
recently completed filming M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water and is
currently filming The Visiting with director Oliver Hirschbiegel.
The native of Washington, D.C. made his big screen debut in the title role of
Basquiat, the true story of the graffiti
artist who became one of America’s most successful and influential painters
of the 1980s. He followed this with a starring role in Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil
and subsequently starred as Peoples Hernandez in the 2000 remake of the classic Shaft.
On stage, Wright recently earned another Tony nomination in the
critically lauded Top Dog, Underdog. He often performs at the New York Shakespeare
Festival where he earned high praise for his portrayal of
Marc Antony in the Shakespeare in
the Park production of Julius Caesar and also completed a long, successful run on
Broadway in the award-winning celebration of African American rhythms
and history Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk.
On television, he starred in the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries Lackawanna Blues.
Wright graduated Amherst College in Massachusetts with a B.A. in political science and
received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from his alma mater in 2004. He currently
lives in Brooklyn, NY with actress Carmen Ejogo and their two children.
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