Known For: American actor (born 1965)
Category: Actors
Occupation: stage actor, film actor, television actor, film producer, actor
Country: United States of America
City: Washington, D.C.
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 07 December 1965
Language English
Jeffrey Wright is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. Wright began his career in theater where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
| BirthPlace | Washington, D.C. |
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| Spouses | Carmen Ejogo |
| Children | Elijah Wright |
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Wright was born on December 7, 1965, in Washington, D.C.. His mother is a customs lawyer and his father died when Jeffrey was a child. He graduated from St. Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science, planning to attend law school, but chose instead to study acting. After attending the MFA acting program at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts for two months in 1988, he left to appear in Les Blancs at Arena Stage before transferring with it to the Huntington Theatre Company and deciding to be an actor full-time.
