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Samuel L. Jackson filmography


Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. In 2009, the collective total of all box office receipts for films that Jackson has starred in (including minor roles and cameos) is the highest of any on-screen actor. As of December 2015, Jackson appeared in over one hundred films with a worldwide box office gross of approximately $16 billion to date. Jackson's film career started in 1972 with a role in the film Together for Days. Over the next nineteen years Jackson was cast in multiple films as minor characters up until his breakthrough role as Gator, a crack addict, in the 1991 Spike Lee film Jungle Fever, for which he won a special jury prize for best supporting actor at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Later, Jackson was cast in starring roles in Amos & Andrew,Pulp Fiction, The Great White Hype, A Time to Kill and The Negotiator. In 1999, Jackson started playing the recurring character Mace Windu in both the Star Wars prequel trilogy and in the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars In 2000, he has been cast as the lead in the remake of Shaft,S.W.A.T.,Coach Carter,Snakes on a Plane and Lakeview Terrace, among other films. Jackson played Marvel Comics character Nick Fury in the films Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the first six of a nine-film commitment as the character for Marvel Studios. He reprised the role again in Avengers: Age of Ultron.


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