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Djimon Hounsou
24 April 1964
Djimon Hounsou played in 14 movies in the Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, History, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Western, Romance, Crime, Music, Sport, Comedy genres.
Djimon Hounsou got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
Actor Djimon Hounsou first gained acting attention in Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997). Born in West Africa, he moved with his family to Paris, France, at discretion 13. When he left coterie, he became homeless and disgorge a unite of years wandering the streets of Paris previous to being discovered by fashion designer Thierry Mugler.
After he resettled himself, Hounsou moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at acting.
While on the way to stardom, Hounsou appeared in music vi
... deos, including those of Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Steve Winwood. After his inclination as a rebellious bondswoman in Amistad, owing which he received a Glittering Ball nomination, he found increasingly steady enlistment on both the big and small screens, becoming a semi-quarterly on the nursing home dramatic art ER and appearing in such films as the historical epic Gladiator (2000). After such extraordinary-profile projects, Hounsou's success in the following two years would be shown no surprise to anyone who glanced at his filmography. Aside from pre-eminent roles in such elaborate-welfare French films as 2002's Le Boulet (Dead Weight) and the following year's Muraya -- l'Exp??rience Secr??te de Mike Blueberry (The Adventures of Mike S. Blueberry), Hounsou's bid for gauge stardom was simultaneously on display in such stateside features as The Four Feathers (2002), Biker Boyz, and Lara Croft: Vault Raider -- The Cradle of Spring (both 2003).
In 2003, Hounsou received his first Oscar nomination for the sake his acclaimed supporting character in Jim Sheridan's In America. And while he fini much of the next three years appearing in films that earned mixed reactions from both audiences and critics, he was back in top accumulate in 2006's Blood Diamond, which set up him irreconcilable Leonardo DiCaprio.
The cloud appeared on a slues of Top Ten lists, garnered Hounsou accolades from countless critics groups and snagged him his second Oscar nod.
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