Samuel Leroy Jackson happy birthday,god bless you !!!What can I write first?How much I adore him?As an actor?As a man?As a human being?He is “all the package”

He was 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  making him the third 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”

After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Jackson attended King’s funeral in Atlanta.

n a 2005 Parade interview, he said, “I was angry about the assassination, but I wasn’t shocked by it. I knew that change was going to take something different—not sit-ins, not peaceful coexistence.”

Samuel Leroy Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on December 21, 1948,the only child of Elizabeth Harriett and Roy Henry Jackson.He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He played the French horn, piccolo, trumpet, and flute in the school orchestra. He developed a stutter during childhood and learned to “pretend to be other people who didn’t stutter”. he had a degree in marine biology, in Atlanta, Georgia. After joining a local acting group, he found an interest in acting and switched his major.Before graduating in 1972, he co-founded the Just Us Theatre.

In 1976 Jackson moved to New York City and began working in the theatre there. In 1981, while appearing in Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier’s Play, Jackson met actor Morgan Freeman and aspiring film student Spike Lee. Both offered Jackson encouragement, and Lee cast Jackson in some of his early films, including School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo’ Better Blues (1990), and Jungle Fever (1991), for which Jackson garnered the first best supporting actor award ever bestowed by the Cannes film festival judges for his riveting performance as a hard-core drug addict. That role prompted Jackson, who had just come out of rehab, to permanently end his own personal drug addiction.

Jackson’s breakthrough came in Tarantino’s cult classic Pulp Fiction, in which Jackson portrayed a loquacious Bible-verse-spewing killer. For that part he earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. His other credits in the 1990s included Jurassic Park (1993), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), The Negotiator (1998), and Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999), as Mace Windu. He reprised that role in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (2005). In addition, he provided the voice of that character in Star Wars: Episode IX—The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

In the 21st century Jackson showed his versatility, appearing as a colonel in the military in Rules of Engagement (2000), a police detective in John Singleton’s blaxploitation movie remake Shaft (2000), an angry motorist in Changing Lanes (2002), an FBI agent in Snakes on a Plane (2006), and an outspoken but devoted white slaver’s butler in Tarantino’s blood-drenched Django Unchained (2012). After Jackson allowed Marvel Comics to use his features for the character Nick Fury, he signed (2009) a nine-movie deal that included Iron Man 2 (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).In 2015 Jackson gained accolades for his roles in Lee’s Chi-Raq, a satire on gang violence in Chicago, and Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, in which Jackson starred as a Black bounty hunter encountering racism and extreme violence in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The following year he starred as a villain seeking immortality in Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a fantastical adventure based on a popular young adult series by Ransom Riggs. Jackson’s films in 2017 included Kong: Skull Island and The Hitman’s Bodyguard; in 2021 he appeared in the latter’s sequel, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.

In addition, Jackson was involved in several Broadway productions. In 1990–91 he was an understudy in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and he later played Martin Luther King, Jr., in The Mountaintop (2011–12). In 2022 he had a lead role in a revival of The Piano Lesson; it was directed by his wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.