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Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

as Sumo (voice)

2022
The King's Man

as Shola

2021
A Quiet Place Part II

as Man on Island

2021
Kimana Tuskers

as Narrator (voice)

2021
Shazam!

as Wizard

2019
Captain Marvel

as Korath

2019
Serenity

as Duke

2019
Charlie's Angels

as Bosley

2019
I Am Heath Ledger

as Self

2017
The Legend of Tarzan

as Chief Mbonga

2016
The Vatican Tapes

as Vicar Imani

2015
Furious 7

as

2015
Air

as Cartwright

2015
Seventh Son

as Radu

2015
How to Train Your Dragon 2

as Drago (voice)

2014
Guardians of the Galaxy

as Korath

2014
Baggage Claim

as Quinton Jamison

2013
Elephant White

as Curtie Church

2011
Special Forces

as Commander Kovax

2012
The Tempest

as

2010
Push

as Henry Carver

2009
Never Back Down

as Jean Roqua

2008
Blood Diamond

as Solomon Vandy

2006
Eragon

as Ajihad

2006
Constantine

as Midnite

2005
The Island

as Albert Laurent

2005
Djimon Hounsou Djimon Hounsou

Birthday

1964-04-24

Place of Birth

Cotonou, Benin

Biography

A Beninese-American actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards. Hounsou became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He was reluctant to renounce his Beninese citizenship and therefore opted to become a dual citizen of both Benin and the United States, effectively rendering him a Beninese-American. Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou. He immigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond. In 1987, he became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1990. One year before obtaining his college degree, he dropped out of school. In the 1989 he appeared in a music video of Straight Up by Paula Abdul. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I’m Nothing, and he has had television parts on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias, but received a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1990 Janet Jackson video “Love Will Never Do (Without You).” He also starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh, dancing to a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" by Arrested Development's Baba Oje. He received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the fourth African male to be nominated for an Oscar (along with Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway and Omar Sharif). In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. In 2007, Hounsou began dating model/CEO of Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons. In 2008 Hounsou and Simmons visited Hounsou's family and while there, the two participated in a traditional commitment ceremony. On May 30, 2009, Simmons gave birth to their son, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, reportedly named because Kenzo means 3 (Kimora's third child). Hounsou is now a naturalized United States citizen and resides in Los Angeles.
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