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Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films.

Jackson is married to Latanya Richardson and has a daughter. He is a huge sports fan and an avid golfer. Jackson has won multiple awards for his film performances and has been portrayed in various forms of media including films, television series, and lyrics. Jackson has starred in over sixty films throughout his career and is currently working on five films that will debut between 2008 and 2009. Jackson's most recent role was a cameo in Iron Man released on May 2, 2008.

Jackson has noted that he chooses roles that are "exciting to watch" and have an "interesting character inside of a story", and that in his roles he wanted to "do things [he hasn't] done, things he saw as a kid and wanted to do and now has an opportunity to do".

Jackson married actress Latanya Richardson in 1980, whom he met while attending Morehouse College.[9][2] The couple, who live in Los Angeles, California, have a daughter, Zoe, born in 1982, who is in culinary school.

Jackson is a keen basketball fan, and especially favors the Toronto Raptors and the Harlem Globetrotters.[30] He also became a keen Liverpool F.C. fan after filming the movie The 51st State in Liverpool, England.[31] Jackson enjoys playing golf, a game he has been reported to have become very proficient at.[2] He has stated that if he had to choose any other career, he would be "on the PGA [tour] playing golf"[12] and that it is the only place where he "can go dressed as a pimp and fit in perfectly".[5] Jackson has also stated in an interview that he has a clause in his film contracts that allows him to play golf twice a week.[32]

Jackson has revealed in an interview that he sees every one of his movies in theaters with paying customers claiming that "Even during my theater years, I wished I could watch the plays I was in--while I was in them! I dig watching myself work."[33] He also enjoys collecting the action figures of the characters he portrays in his films including Jules Winnfield, Shaft, Mace Windu, and Frozone.[34]

Jackson is bald in real life, but enjoys wearing unusual wigs in his films.[35] For the film Black Snake Moan, he was allowed to choose the hairstyle he wanted for his character.[32] He is a comic book and anime fan.