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Jeffrey Wright

Father died when he was a year old and was raised by his mother, who was a lawyer before working at the U.S. Customs Department, and his aunt, a one-time nurse.
Won Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels In America: Perestroika," a role he recreated in the television mini-series version, अमेरिका में एन्जिल्स (2003). In 2002, he was nominated for Tony's Best Actor (Play) Award for "Topdog/Underdog."
The only original cast member from the play Angels In America to appear in the film version अमेरिका में एन्जिल्स (2003).
In 2006, he became the first African American to play Felix Leiter in an official James Bond film (कसिनो रोयाल (2006). Bernie Casey played Leiter in the unofficial Bond No. 1 (1983).
He has played the role of James Bond's ally Felix Leiter in three films, more than any other actor.

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
About Cement (2000) - "That was a film that Adrian Pasdar directed. He's been a good friend of mine. It's kind of a cops and criminals film, but it's hard to decipher who's who. We shot it guerrilla-style, mostly out in Long Beach, California. My character's struggling to maintain his balance in an imbalanced, criminal underground."
One of the people who made a huge impression on me early in my career and who was also kind of a master to my apprentice was a woman named Lilia Skala. She said to me "You know, Jeffrey, you're good, but you must work hard. Success will not drop out of the sky like a ripe apple. You must work!" One of the best pieces of advice anybody ever gave to me.