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Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and film producer, who is best known for his role as Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels. He also reprised this role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (albeit not in the series itself) and voiced Mace's Force Ghost in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Archive recordings of him can be heard in the Star Wars: Clone Wars episode "Shattered".
Apart from said roles, Jackson voiced Frozone in the 2004 Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel, and reprised this role in the video game of the same name based on the first film. He was also the narrator of the 2011 Disneynature film African Cats.
He also played Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, What If...?, Secret Invasion, and The Marvels. He reprised his role as Nick Fury in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in two episodes of the first season.
He also provided the speaking voice of Nick Fury in Disney Infinity: 2.0, and played the role of Elijah Price in Unbreakable and Glass. Additionally, he voiced Agent Joseph in The Proud Family. Other Disney roles include portraying Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 Miramax crime film Pulp Fiction (in which he earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Ordell Robbie in Jackie Brown, and Rufus in Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Outside of Disney, Jackson is well-known for portraying Detective John Shaft II in the Shaft film series (alongside Richard Roundtree), P.K. Highsmith in The Other Guys, Stephen Warren in Django Unchained, and Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight. He also voiced Whiplash in DreamWorks' Turbo and Frank Tenpenny in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game. He will voice Vic, Garfield's estranged father in the 2024 computer-animated film The Garfield Movie.
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- Samuel L. Jackson was uncredited for his appearances in Iron Man and Thor, being cameos in post-credit scenes.
- He appeared in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "The Magical Place", using stock footage from The Avengers.
- He will work again alongside his fellow MCU star Chris Pratt in the 2024 computer-animated film The Garfield Movie. Pratt voices the titular character, whilst Jackson will voice Vic, Garfield's estranged father.[1]