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Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing actor of all time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Academy Honorary Award in 2022 as "A cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated across genres and generations and audiences worldwide". Jackson started his career on stage making his professional theatre debut in Mother Courage and her Children in 1980 at The Public Theatre. From 1981 to 1983 he originated the role of Private Louis Henderson in 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 returned to the play in the 2022 Broadway revival playing Doaker Charles. Jackson early film roles include Coming to America (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Patriot Games (1992), Juice (1992), True Romance (1993), and Jurassic Park (1993), Menace II Society (1993), and Fresh (1994). His collaborations with Spike Lee led to greater prominence with films such as School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Oldboy (2013), and Chi-Raq (2015). Jackson's breakout role was in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) which earned him a BAFTA Award win and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He further collaborated with Tarantino, acting in Jackie Brown (1997), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015). He's known for having appeared in a number of big-budget films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), The Negotiator (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000) and its reboot (2019), XXX (2002), S.W.A.T. (2003), Coach Carter (2005), Snakes on a Plane (2006), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), and Glass (2019). He also gained widespread recognition as the Jedi Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), later voicing the role in the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and the video game Lego Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2011). With his permission, his likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury; he subsequently played Fury in 11 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with a cameo appearance in Iron Man (2008), as well as guest-starring in the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He will reprise this role in the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion, which is set to premiere on June 21, 2023. Jackson has provided his voice for several animated films, documentaries, television series, and video games, including Lucius Best / Frozone in the Pixar films The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018).
Samuel L. Jackson
Nick Fury. Jr
for Nick Fury. Jr in Avengers 5 Age of Ultron
Suggested by amvdck
When Hank Pym returns to New York the Avengers confront him to find that he has thousands of Ultrons ready to rule the city. Hank proceeds to start taking over all of America and soon the world so the new Avengers team consisting of Captain America, Hawkeye, Ironman, Hulk, Jane Foster's Thor, Scott Lang, Scarlet Witch, and Wasp start trying to take Hank down but it's no use. Eventually the entire world is overrun by Ultron and all hope seems lost until a light in the sky strikes down Hank and that light was Captain Marvel who puts up a fight, but Ultron takes her down too. One of the first things Ultron does is kill Hawkeye in front of everyone for fun. Eventually Ultron takes Hank and tells him that he can't take over the world with a master and kills Hank. Hank's controller drops to the ground and Captain America gets it and shuts off all the Ultron bots, but Ultron activates a power generator on top of Avengers tower where the Avengers have to get to and shut it down. It takes a good chunk of the movie, but Captain America, Scott Lang, and Wasp get to the generator but when they get there its revealed Hank didn't die but uploaded his consciousness into Ultron and is about to destroy them, but Wasp starts talking to him and tells him he doesn't have to do all this but he doesn't listen and tries to attack him but Vision an android created by Tony Stark and Scott Lang shows up and holds Hank off while Captain America shuts the generator off and every Ultron bot is destroyed.
