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Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese-American actor and model. He began his career appearing in music videos, made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing and earned widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards. Hounsou became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He was reluctant to renounce his Beninese citizenship and therefore opted to become a dual citizen of both Benin and the United States, effectively rendering him a Beninese-American. Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou. He immigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond. In 1987, he became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1990. One year before obtaining his college degree, he dropped out of school. In 1989, he appeared in a music video of Straight Up by Paula Abdul. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I’m Nothing, and he has had television roles on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias, but received a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1990 Janet Jackson video “Love Will Never Do (Without You).” He also starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh, dancing to a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" by Arrested Development's Baba Oje. He received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the fourth African male to be nominated for an Oscar (along with Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway and Omar Sharif). In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. In 2007, Hounsou began dating model/CEO of Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons. In 2008 Hounsou and Simmons visited Hounsou's family and while there, the two participated in a traditional commitment ceremony. On May 30, 2009, Simmons gave birth to their son, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, reportedly named because Kenzo means 3 (Kimora's third child).
Djimon Hounsou
Anubis (Voice)
for Anubis (Voice) in Echidna and Offspring: The Shadow covering the Land of Sunshine
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
A year after having prevented the Rägnarok from destroying the Earth and the various worlds connected to the Nordic Pantheon, Echidna and her offspring are more than ever seen as heroes throughout this world which is called to change. However, the peace is only relative, because the particular family receives the visit of Anubis, the God of the Dead for the Egyptians, who warns them of the coming of a catastrophic threat against which his lord, Ra, God of the sun of this pantheon, fight. Apophis, the gigantic snake wanting to destroy the World, gains ground against the Falcon God and Anubis humbly asks for help from the family of "monsters", against the advice of his family. However, once in Egypt, our heroes realize two important things. First, the monster is controlled by Seth, the god of evil of the Egyptians, who wants to take the place of Ra, his own father. And, above all, Apophis is actually Typhon, the father of the children of Echidna, who was brainwashed by Seth ! Faced with this horrible discovery, our heroes will do everything to save this world... while also hoping to be able to save their father, whose absence in their lives has weighed heavily on them for millennia, especially for the youngest, Echidnaness, who never known him...
