Jeffrey Wright

Date of Birth: 07 Dec 1965
Country: USA
Biography: Actor Jeffrey Wright has earned an estimable reputation as one of the most versatile character actors of his generation, both on-stage and onscreen. After a number of television roles and much theater work, Wright scored a breakthrough film role when he was cast in the lead of 1996's Basquiat. (Rovi)
Total Credits at Criticker: 64 (Actor)
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Will Smith and director/writer Michael Mann take you into the heart and life of the boxer, the legend and, more importantly, the man. (Columbia Pictures)
Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to take revenge. The events that follow are an exploration of modern morality as Roseanne faces not only a fellow suburbanite who knows, but her own conscience as well.
New York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. Hamlet must determine if the ghost is truly his father, and if Claudius did the deed. To buy time, Hamlet feigns madness; to catch his uncle's conscience, he invites him to watch a film he's made that shows a tale of murder... (imdb)
As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it -- a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. (Paramount Pictures)
Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Women and Blacks have few rights. Jack Bull's dad is killed by Union soldiers, so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt, beholden to the man who bought his freedom. They skirmish then spend long hours hiding. Sue Lee, a young widow, brings them food... (imdb)
New York City police detective John Shaft goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
Kenji (Kaneshiro) is an aimless young Japanese man living in New York whose life changes dramatically when he dreams about Death (Sorvino) in the form of a beautiful woman and sees her in his reality. When she tells him he has only 12 hours left to live, the clueless man tries to make sense out of his meaningless life... and time is running out. (Wonsuk Chin)
A political thriller that unfolds against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film's multiple storylines weave together to illuminate the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and power.
Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. (imdb)
Lackawanna Blues (2005) - TV Movie
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York. (imdb)
Stallone plays a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one. (imdb)
Cleveland Heep, a stuttering apartment superintendent, encounters a girl named Story swimming in the complex's pool. He soon learns that she comes from the Blue World, and has a message for mankind. Will he be able to help her complete her mission?
Angels in America (2003) - TV Mini-Series
Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. (imdb)
In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
The Invasion is a nightmarish journey into a world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her colleague Ben Driscoll learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic... (imdb)
Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (imdb)
Chain of events that unfolds in a forgotten Brooklyn neighborhood during the blackout of 2003.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 (2008) - Direct-to-Video
After quitting his job as a waiter in Chicago, Indy heads to New York, following a tip for summertime employment. Indy gets much, much more than he bargained for when he signs up as a stagehand at the new Broadway extravaganza, George White's Scandals. While the work is exhausting, what's truly wearing Indy down is trying to juggle three new girlfriends -- without having each learn of the others. His new friend George Gershwin is of little help, finding humor and song in Indy's predicament.
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's valuable resource.
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters (imdb)
In 1994, the small African country of Rwanda was awash in blood. Extremists in the majority Hutu-controlled government organized a systematic genocide of Rwanda's minority Tutsi population. In just 100 days, more than 800,000 were killed. The atrocity was halted a decade ago, but for Rwandans the ordeal does not yet have an ending. Today, the physical scars sustained by survivors are fading, but emotional scars remain. (freedocumentaries.org)
Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up. (imdb)
Separate But Equal (1991) - TV Movie
The television movie made about the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. (imdb)
An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon. (imdb)
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player, and pacifist searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks. (imdb)
Boycott (2001) - TV Movie
After Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus and is arrested, the Montgomery Improvement Association decides to fight back, naming Dr. King its president and staging a boycott against the Montgomery buses, bringing the black community together in one of the first major organized battles against segregation and racism in the 1950s. (cduniverse.com)
An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City's mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal. (imdb)
Separated from their mothers and facing a summer in the Brooklyn projects alone, two boys hide from police and forage for food, with only each other to trust. A story of salvation through friendship and two boys against the world. (sundance.org)
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood. (imdb)
A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries. (imdb)
Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage. (imdb)
Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. The story goes back and forth over the previous 48 hours to show what brings Bill and Sean to this deadly scene.
A dinosaur gets separated from his family, and attempts to find his way home. He meets a human boy along the way, and the two work together to brave the elements.
Confirmation (2016) - TV Movie
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her. (imdb)
Westworld (2016) - TV Series
A series inspired by the 1973 film of the same title written by Michael Crichton about a futuristic theme park populated by artificial beings. (imdb)
The troubled life and tragic death of a college football standout and talented NFL running back. (imdb)
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. (imdb)
Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.
In "the public" an unusually bitter Arctic blast has made its way to downtown Cincinnati and the front doors of the public library where the action of the film takes place. The story revolves around the library patrons, many of whom are homeless, mentally ill and marginalized, as well as an exhausted and overwhelmed staff of librarians who often build emotional connections and a sense of obligation to care for those regular patrons. (imdb)
After the deaths of three children suspected to be by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness. (imdb)
A maximum-security prison inmate named Louis, who, 24 years after committing a violent crime as a young man, finds himself on the cusp of release from prison, facing an uncertain future on the outside. He encounters Beech,a newly incarcerated young man who offers him much needed-friendship,though it's not without unfortunate complications. (Tribeca Film Festival)
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (imdb)
Follows a group of journalists who take part in unearthing 11.5 million files, linking the world's most powerful political figures to secret banking accounts to avoid taxes. (imdb)
"Monster" is what the prosecutor calls 17 year old honors student Steve Harmon. He is being charged with felony murder. But is Steve really a monster? Adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. (imdb)
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch" magazine. (imdb)
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
A young man who committed a homicide deals with the repercussions of his action.
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany.
What If...? (2021) - TV Series
Exploring pivotal moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turning them on their head, leading the audience into uncharted territory.
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler (wikipedia.com).
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. (imdb)
Archival footage, contemporary interviews and reflection on Willie Mays and his trailblazing influence in and outside baseball too.
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. (imdb)
Bill Russell: Legend (2023) - TV Mini-Series
Features interviews and personal archives from the life and career of NBA legend Bill Russell.
English professor and author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, with the intent to expose the hypocrisies of the publishing industry (imdb.com).
ARK: The Animated Series (2024) - TV Series
Follow Survivor and protagonist Helena Walker after her initial awakening on The Island. (imdb)
Lincoln's Dilemma (2022) - TV Series
Follows Abraham Lincoln's complex journey to end slavery with insights from journalists, educators and Lincoln scholars, including rare archival materials, that offer a more nuanced look. (imdb)
The Agency (2024) - TV Series
Follows a world of even deeper intrigue and subterfuge, with characters fighting their own battles as they grapple with existential threats to the nation and the world. (imdb)
When a ruthless music empire kingpin is thrust into a deadly extortion scheme, he's forced to confront an unthinkable choice: protect his dynasty or save an innocent life. A gritty, modern reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, pulsing through the neon-lit chaos and shadowy underbelly of contemporary New York City.