Jussie Smollett
Jussie Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, California, United States on June 21st, 1982 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 41, Jussie Smollett biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jussie Smollett ( JUSS-ee, born June 21, 1982) is an American actor and singer.
He began his career as a child actor in 1987 acting in films including The Mighty Ducks (1992) and Rob Reiner's North (1994).
In 2015, Smollett portrayed musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox drama series Empire, a role which was hailed as groundbreaking for its positive depiction of a black gay man on television.
Smollett has also appeared in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien: Covenant (2017) as Ricks and in Marshall (2017) as Langston Hughes. Smollett was indicted on February 20, 2019 for disorderly conduct consisting of allegedly paying two Nigerian-American brothers to stage a fake hate crime assault on him and filing a false police report.
Smollett's defense team reached a deal with prosecutors on March 26, 2019, in which all charges were dropped in return for Smollett performing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond.
On March 27, 2019, it was announced that the FBI would be investigating why the charges were dismissed.
Early life
Jussie Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, California, the son of Joel and Janet (née Harris) Smollett. He has three brothers and two sisters: Jake, Jocqui, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jazz, several of whom are also actors. Smollett is biracial. His mother is African-American, and his father is Jewish. He has said that his father would "kill you if you called him white". His father was absent from his life for a significant portion of his childhood. The family moved to the Elmhurst neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens when he was two years old, then to Los Angeles when he was about seven. Smollett graduated from Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus, New Jersey. When he was 19, Smollett told his parents he was gay.
Personal life
Smollett publicly came out as gay during a televised interview with Ellen DeGeneres in March 2015. When Smollett's gay character from Empire engaged in a tryst with a female character, Smollett defended the plot development by stating that he and Empire's co-creator Lee Daniels were trying to create a conversation about sexual fluidity in the gay community. While he and Smollett are gay, Daniels has stated that they occasionally want to have sex with women.
In 2007 Smollett pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts providing false information to law enforcement resulting from a DUI stop in which he gave police a false name pretending to be his brother. Smollett also pleaded no contest to driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit and driving without a valid driver's license and was sentenced to a fine and three years of probation.
Career
Smollett began his acting career as a child model in New York City and later appeared in the films Mo' Better Blues (1992) and Rob Reiner's North (1994). In the short-lived ABC sitcom On Our Own, he appeared alongside his five real-life siblings. Smollett returned to acting in Patrik-Ian Polk's LGBT-themed comedy-drama The Skinny in 2012. He also released The Poisoned Hearts Club, an EP that was released early this year. He appeared on The Mindy Project (2012) and Revenge (2014) as a guest star.
Smollett appeared in the Fox drama series Empire in 2014 as Jamal Lyon, a gay musician struggling to gain the support of his father Lucious. His role was praised for its positive portrayal of a Black gay man on television. Smollett reprised his role in subsequent seasons and helmed an episode of the fourth season in 2017. Because of the assault controversy, Smollett's character was stripped from the final two episodes of season five.
Smollett revealed in February 2015 that he had signed a recording deal with Columbia Records and that an album would be out soon. On the Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire's album, Smollett co-wrote the songs "I Wanta Love You" and "You're So Beautiful."
Smollett would appear alongside his younger sister Jurnee in Underground, which aired in 2016. In March 2018, Smollett's debut album, Sum of My Music, was released. Sum of My Music is a R&B collection that features elements of electronic music and hip hop. Smollett released it under his own name, Music of Sound.
Fox Entertainment reported on April 30, 2019 that although Smollett's contract had been extended for the sixth season of Empire, there were no plans for his character to appear during it.
B-Boy Blues, a film based on James Earl Hardy's 1994 black gay book, was directed by Smollett. In November 2021, the film was released.