| Samuel L. Jackson | ||
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| ...as Louis Taggert | ||
| Character Louis Taggert | ||
| Date of birth December 21, 1948 | ||
| Place of birth Washington, D.C. | ||
| IMDb profile |
Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American Academy Award-nominated actor who played Louis Taggert in the Law & Order Season 1 episode "The Violence of Summer".
Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films. He played a major role in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. The film was perhaps Jackson's most notable role, mainly for his monologues and one-liners along with co-star John Travolta. The film earned Jackson an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
He is one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood today. Jackson has appeared in various films by filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino and Renny Harlin and has gotten several nominations for his scene-stealing performances. Jackson has appeared in notable supporting or lead film roles such as GoodFellas, Patriot Games, Menace II Society, Jurassic Park (with Jeff Goldblum and B.D. Wong), True Romance, Die Hard With a Vengeance, A Time to Kill, Out of Sight (with Dennis Farina, Nancy Allen, Viola Davis, and Paul Calderon), Jackie Brown (with Pam Grier), The Negotiator, Rules of Engagement, Kill Bill: Volume 2 (with Vivica A. Fox), Coach Carter, 1408, Snakes on a Plane, Deep Blue Sea (with Saffron Burrows and Michael Rapaport), The Spirit, Lakeview Terrace, Django Unchained, Cell and Spiral: From the Book of Saw. He has also appeared in franchises as John Shaft II in the 2000 and 2019 Shaft films (the 2019 version with Regina Hall), Elijah Price / Mr. Glass as Unbreakable and its sequel Glass (with Spencer Treat Clark), Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (with Ahmed Best), and Frozone in The Incredibles and its sequel (the second one with Sophia Bush). One of his more prolific franchise roles has been Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in such films and TV shows such as Iron Man (with Clark Gregg and Terrence Howard), Captain America: The First Avenger (with Neal McDonough and Sebastian Stan), The Avengers (again with Gregg), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (again with Gregg and Ming-Na Wen), Captain America: The Winter Solider (with Stan, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Maximiliano Hernández, and Emily VanCamp), Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel (with Lee Pace), Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home (with J.K. Simmons), Secret Invasion (with Charlayne Woodard), and is set to appear in the movies The Marvels and Garfield. He has also done numerous notable voice-overs roles for cartoon films and video games including the Afro Samurai miniseries.