Jeffrey Wright (lahir 7 Desember 1965) adalah aktor asal Amerika Serikat. Dia telah menerima banyak penghargaan, termasuk Primetime Emmy Award, Tony Award dan Golden Globe Award, juga nominasi Academy Award. Wright memulai karirnya di teater di mana ia menjadi terkenal karena perannya dalam produksi Broadway dari Angels in America (1993), di mana ia memenangkan Tony Award untuk Aktor Unggulan Terbaik dalam Drama. Dia mengulangi perannya dalam adaptasi miniseri HBO tahun 2003, ia mendapatkan Penghargaan Primetime Emmy untuk Aktor Pendukung Luar Biasa dalam Serial atau Film Terbatas.
| Jeffrey Wright | |
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Wright pada San Diego Comic-Con 2019 | |
| Lahir | 7 Desember 1965 Washington, D.C., Amerika Serikat |
| Pendidikan | Amherst College (BA) Universitas New York |
| Pekerjaan | Aktor |
| Tahun aktif | 1990–sekarang |
| Suami/istri | |
| Anak | 2 |
Peran film pertamanya adalah sebagai Jean-Michel Basquiat di Basquiat (1996). Film terkenal lainnya termasuk Shaft (2000), Syriana (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), The Ides of March (2011), The French Dispatch (2021), Asteroid City (2023) dan Rustin (2023). Dia juga berperan sebagai Felix Leiter dalam film James Bond, Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008) dan No Time to Die (2021), Beetee Latier dalam film seri The Hunger Games dan Jim Gordon dalam The Batman (2022). Dia menerima nominasi Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik atas penampilannya dalam American Fiction (2023).
Wright mendapat pujian atas perannya sebagai Valentin Narcisse dalam serial HBO, Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014) dan pemrogram robot Bernard Lowe dalam serial HBO, Westworld (2016–2022), yang membuatnya mendapatkan tiga nominasi Primetime Emmy Award. Dia juga mengisi suara sebagai Isaac Dixon dalam video game The Last of Us Part II (2020) dan sebagai the Watcher dalam serial animasi Marvel Studios, What If...? (2021–sekarang).
Awal kehidupan sunting
Wright lahir pada tanggal 7 Desember 1965, di Washington, D.C., putra dari Barbara Evon Whiting-Wright, seorang pengacara bea cukai, dan James Charles Wright Jr., yang meninggal ketika Jeffrey masih kecil. Dia lulus dari Sekolah St. Albans dan kuliah di Amherst College, menerima gelar sarjana dalam ilmu politik, berencana untuk masuk sekolah hukum, tetapi memilih untuk belajar akting. Setelah mengikuti program akting MFA di New York University Tisch School of the Arts selama dua bulan pada tahun 1988, ia keluar untuk tampil di Les Blancs di Arena Stage sebelum pindah ke Huntington Theatre Company dan memutuskan untuk menjadi aktor penuh waktu.
Kehidupan pribadi sunting
Wright menikah dengan aktris Carmen Ejogo pada Agustus 2000. Mereka memiliki seorang putra bernama Elijah dan seorang putri bernama Juno dan tinggal di Brooklyn, New York City. Mereka bercerai di tahun 2014.
Dia adalah penggemar Washington Commanders. Pada tahun 2004, Wright menerima gelar kehormatan dari almamaternya Amherst College. Wright adalah ketua dan salah satu pendiri Taia, LLC dan Taia Peace Foundation serta Wakil Ketua Taia Lion Resources, Inc, sebuah perusahaan eksplorasi emas yang ingin menciptakan operasi penambangan emas bebas konflik di Sierra Leone.
Filmografi sunting
Film sunting
| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Keterangan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Prosecuting Attorney | |
| 1992 | Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Derek | |
| 1996 | Faithful | Young Man | |
| Basquiat | Jean-Michel Basquiat | ||
| 1997 | Critical Care | Bed Two | |
| 1998 | Too Tired to Die | Balzac Man | |
| Celebrity | Greg | ||
| Meschugge | Win | ||
| Blossoms and Veils | Ben | ||
| 1999 | Cement | Ninny | |
| Ride with the Devil | Daniel Holt | ||
| 2000 | Hamlet | Gravedigger | |
| Crime and Punishment in Suburbia | Chris | ||
| Shaft | Peoples Hernandez | ||
| 2001 | Ali | Howard Bingham | |
| 2002 | D-Tox | Jaworski | |
| 2004 | Sin's Kitchen | Rex | |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Al Melvin | ||
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Winston | |
| Syriana | Bennett Holiday | ||
| 2006 | Lady in the Water | Mr. Dury | |
| Casino Royale | Felix Leiter | ||
| 2007 | The Invasion | Dr. Stephen Galeano | |
| Blackout | Nelson | Produser | |
| 2008 | W. | Colin Powell | |
| Quantum of Solace | Felix Leiter | ||
| Cadillac Records | Muddy Waters | ||
| 2009 | One Blood | Dan Clark | Produser |
| 2011 | Source Code | Dr. Rutledge | |
| The Ides of March | Senator Thompson | ||
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | William Black | ||
| 2013 | Broken City | Carl Fairbanks | |
| A Single Shot | Simon | ||
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Beetee | ||
| The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete | Henry | ||
| 2014 | Ernest & Celestine | Grizzly Judge (suara) | Dub Bahasa Inggris |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | Dr. Watson | ||
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Beetee | ||
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 | ||
| The Good Dinosaur | Poppa Henry (suara) | ||
| 2018 | Monster | Mr. Harmon | |
| The Public | Mr. Anderson | ||
| Game Night | FBI Agent Ron Henderson | Tanpa kredit | |
| Age Out | Detective Portnoy | ||
| O.G. | Louis | ||
| Hold the Dark | Russell Core | ||
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Malchus Irvin Boncamper | |
| The Goldfinch | James "Hobie" Hobart | ||
| Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Narrator | ||
| 2020 | All Day and a Night | J.D. | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Roebuck Wright | |
| No Time to Die | Felix Leiter | ||
| 2022 | The Batman | Jim Gordon | |
| 2023 | Asteroid City | General Gibson | |
| Atrabilious | Vincent Daugherty | ||
| Rustin | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. | ||
| American Fiction | Thelonious "Monk" Ellison |
Televisi sunting
| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Keterangan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Separate but Equal | William Coleman | Film TV |
| 1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sidney Bechet | 2 episode |
| 1994 | New York Undercover | Andre Foreman | Episode: "Garbage" |
| 1997 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Hal Wilson | 3 episode |
| 2001 | Boycott | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Film TV |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Norman "Belize" Arriaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless Man / The Angel Europa | 6 episode |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Mr. Paul | Film TV |
| 2007 | American Experience | Narator | Episode: "New Orleans" |
| 2012 | House | Dr. Walter Cofield | Episode: "Nobody's Fault" |
| 2013–2014 | Boardwalk Empire | Valentin Narcisse | 11 episode |
| 2016 | The Venture Brothers | Think Tank (suara) | Episode: "Tanks for Nuthin" |
| Confirmation | Charles Ogletree | Film TV | |
| BoJack Horseman | Cuddlywhiskers / Father (suara) | 3 episode | |
| 2016–2022 | Westworld | Bernard Lowe / Arnold Weber | Pemain utama |
| 2017 | She's Gotta Have It | Purple "ITIS" Voice (suara) | Episode: "#NolasChoice (3 DA HARD WAY)" |
| 2019 | Sesame Street | Bernard Lowe | Segment: "Respect World" |
| Green Eggs and Ham | McWinkle (suara) | 13 episode | |
| Rick and Morty | Tony (suara) | Episode: "The Old Man and the Seat" | |
| 2020 | Finding Your Roots | Diri sendiri | Episode: "This Land is My Land" |
| The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Narator | Episode 28 Agustus 2020 | |
| 2021–sekarang | What If...? | The Watcher (suara) | Pemeran utama |
| 2023 | Digman! | (suara) | Episode: "The Grail" |
| I Am Groot | The Watcher (suara) | Episode: "Groot and the Great Prophecy" | |
| TBA | Ark: The Animated Series | Henry Townsend (suara) |
Permainan video sunting
| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Keterangan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Last of Us Part II | Isaac Dixon | Suara; Motion capture |
Teater sunting
| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Lokasi |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Belize / Mr. Lies | Teater Walter Kerr, Broadway |
| 1993 | Angels in America: Perestroika | Belize / Mr. Lies / Council of Principalities | |
| 1996 | Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk | Da Voice | Ambassador Theatre, Broadway |
| 2002 | Topdog/Underdog | Lincoln | |
| 2010 | A Free Man of Color | Jacques Cornet | Teater Vivian Beaumont, Broadway |
Audio sunting
| Tahun | Judul | Peran | Produksi | Keterangan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Sandman: Act II | Destiny | Audible | |
| 2021 | Batman: The Audio Adventures | Batman/Bruce Wayne | Blue Ribbon Content |
Referensi sunting
- . . Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2013. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal October 25, 2013. Diakses tanggal June 2, 2017.
- Stated on Finding Your Roots, January 14, 2020
- Richards, David (February 12, 1988). "Barren 'Blancs'". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal December 6, 2020.
- Horwitz, Simi (November 22, 2010). "Jeffrey Wright Preens in 19th Century New Orleans". Reuters. Diakses tanggal December 6, 2020.
- "Jeffrey Wright Biography (1965?–)". Filmreference.com. Diakses tanggal 2013-01-02.
- Mottram, James (4 September 2009). "Carmen Ejogo: 'There's some kind of trauma at play'". The Independent. Diakses tanggal 2 July 2015.
- "Carmen, Elijah & Juno Wright". alittlemuse.com. 7 September 2011. Diakses tanggal 2 July 2015.
- "Actor Jeffrey Wright and family". bck online. August 31, 2009. Diakses tanggal June 2, 2017.
- Zahed, Ramin (18 December 2014). "'Selma' allows Carmen Ejogo to play Coretta Scott King a second time". LATimes.com. Diakses tanggal 26 December 2014.
- "20 celebrities and athletes who are Redskins fans". NBCSports.com. Diakses tanggal July 31, 2022.
- Steinberg, Dan (September 24, 2013). "Jeffrey Wright defends 'Redskins' name". WashingtonPost.com. Diakses tanggal February 4, 2023.
- Amherst Magazine Summer 2004: College Row 2011-10-04 di Wayback Machine. Amherst Magazine, Summer 2004
- "About Us". www.taiapeace.org. Diakses tanggal 2022-03-30.
- "Jeffrey Wright". Oslo Freedom Forum (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2022-03-30.
- Bergner, Daniel (2014-01-16). "Jeffrey Wright's Gold Mine". The New York Times (dalam bahasa Inggris). ISSN 0362-4331. Diakses tanggal 2022-03-30.
- Shaffer, Claire (2020-05-04). "'The First Time': Jeffrey Wright". Rolling Stone (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2022-03-30.
- "Mining in Africa for the 21st Century". Human Rights Foundation (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2022-03-30.
- Bramesco, Charles (September 27, 2018). "Jeffrey Wright on Hold the Dark: 'I Was Worn Out, Physically and Mentally'". Vulture. Diakses tanggal March 17, 2019.
- "Finding Your Roots: Meet Our Guests – Jeffrey Wright". PBS. Diakses tanggal October 27, 2021.
- Mancuso, Vinnie (July 20, 2019). . Collider. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal July 21, 2019. Diakses tanggal August 20, 2019.
- Babb, Tiffany (September 1, 2023). . PopVerse. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal September 3, 2023. Diakses tanggal September 6, 2023.
- Del Rosario, Alexandra (December 11, 2020). "'Ark: The Animated Series': Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh & Elliot Page Among Voice Cast Members In New Video Game-Inspired Show". Deadline Hollywood.
- Spangler, Todd (July 22, 2021). "'The Sandman: Act II' on Audible Premiere Date Set, James McAvoy Returns to Lead Star-Studded Cast". Variety. Diakses tanggal October 27, 2021.
Pranala luar sunting
- Jeffrey Wright di Internet Broadway Database
- Jeffrey Wright di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- (Inggris) Jeffrey Wright di AllMovie