ACTOR JEFFREY WRIGHT AND FAMILY
Submitted by admin on August 31, 2009 at 8:23 am 26 Comments
Actor Jeffrey Wright (R) and his family attended Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday celebration in Prospect Park hosted by Director Spike Lee on August 29, 2009. Jeffrey is best known for his roles in films Cadillac Records(Muddy Waters), W(General Colin Powell) and Quantum of Solace(Felix Leiter). Jeffrey’s wife, Carmen Ejogo, is also an actress. She has starred in films What’s the Worst That Could Happen?(Amber Belhaven), The Brave One (Jackie), and Pride and Glory(Tasha).
Jeffrey and Carmen and their two children reside in Brooklyn, NY.
Beautiful family!
Now who is he again?
you must be young…
Or just plain living in a van down by the river without TV, entertainment mags, or the Internet.
ever watched Shaft (Samuel L Jackson remake)? He played the character “Peoples”
What a beautiful family. I love to see this man act. He has the the surpurb ability to inject himself so deeply into a character that the audience really belives that he is the character. The first time I actually saw him play was in “Shaft” and he had that character down pat, I thought; until I saw him play Dr. King in the HBO role. While he really looks nothing like King, he was so believable until he actually began to look like Dr. King to me. He is a fabulous actor and any time a movie includes his name I anxious to see it.
They have a very handsome family. I’ve been told I look like Carmen Ejogo, I gladly take it as a compliment.
Carmen is gorgeous. She is dressed down here and still looks good.
That is a compliment for sure.
Khrish, everything you are saying I agree with. I first saw him on Shaft and than playing Dr. King. I feel the same way you do, he is a brilliant actor, and should be working more than he does. He can play any role, I honestly believed he was Latin in his role in Shaft until I saw him play Dr. King. He is amazing.
I loved that part in Shaft. Especially when he was giving the boy the beeper and he was sitting in the bathroom. But he was brilliant in role of Dr. King. He was good in “W” as Colin Powell as well as his small role in LACKAWANNA BLUES?
wow they both played in that movie lackawanna blues(i loved that movie lol) i always wondered what his ethnicity was, maybe hispanic and black?
He’s black. Grew up in D.C., I believe. Very smart, too–an Amherst grad.
What role did she play in Lackawanna Blues. I don’t remember her and I’ll have to watch it again so I can see her.
I loved Jeffrey in Cadillac records, such a great actor.
You are right. I had even forgotten about that one and it’s the last one I saw him in.
Loved them both in Lackawanna Blues!
They both also played in The HBO movie King where Carmen played Coretta. Carmen also played in Queen(or one of the North v South period pieces). Love me some Jeffrey Wright!!!
Love their daughter’s hair!
Wait a minute! Foreal!!!? Jeffrey and Carmen!!? Who woulda THUNK it! I love it! This is beautiful. To co-sign a previous poster, I too loved them in Lackawanna Blues!
Wanna know great an actor he is? Check him out in Angels in America and the Manchurian Candidate with Denzel
Boy you just keep reminding me of all the films that I have enjoyed with him have a role. He is just such a good actor. I would have loved to see him in the production done for the re-opening of the Lincoln Theater.
Did anybody peep the MJ look-a-like in the background of the first pic? LOL!
I saw it but just looked and moved along because Spike Lee was having a birthday celebration for MJ’s birthday and it’s just what one would exspect that many would come dressed like MJ.
OMG!!!! I didn’t know he was married to Carmen?! And I don’t care what character he plays, I love him as an actor but his role in Shaft with Samuel Jackson as ‘Peoples’ is my all time favorite. I can hear him now “dis iz a hundred puh sent eh gypshun cotun” those are not typos!! Loved him in that movie. But seriously I have this urge to bite his daughters cheeks…..just delicious.
you all do your history on this couple.This is beautiful.They have been together for so long and have evening acting together.God bless you and your family =)
I love Carmen Ejogo! Seriously, no one talks about her enough. I think she was most beautiful in the mini-series, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal opposite Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson. Ironically, Ejogo and Neill actually looked as if they could be a couple, it looked so natural on screen, so real. Anyway, she’s gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!