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Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding
presence on screen, stage and television for more than 35 years.
Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and
James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights.
Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American
Conservatory Theater. It was his Broadway debut in Fugard's Master
Harold...and the Boys, which brought him to national recognition and
led director Robert Benton to cast Glover in his first leading role
in 1984's Oscar© nominated Best Picture
Places in the Heart.
The following year, Glover starred in two more Best
Picture nominees: Peter Weir's Witness and Steven
Spielberg's The Color Purple. In 1987, Glover partnered
with Mel Gibson in the first Lethal Weapon film and went
on to star in three hugely successful Lethal Weapon
sequels. Glover has also invested his talents in more
personal projects, including the award-winning To Sleep
With Anger, which he executive produced and for which he
won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor; Bopha!;
Manderlay; Missing in America; and the film version of
Athol Fugard's play Boesman and Lena. On the small
screen, Glover won an Image Award and a Cable ACE Award
and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the
title role of the HBO movie Mandela. He has also
received Emmy nominations for his work in the acclaimed
miniseries Lonesome Dove and the telefilm Freedom Song.
As a director, he earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for
Showtime's Just a Dream.
Glover's film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal
Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some
of which Glover also produced. He co-starred in the
critically acclaimed feature Dreamgirls directed by Bill
Condon and in Po' Boy's Game for director Clement Virgo.
He appeared in the hit feature Shooter for director
Antoine Fuqua, Honeydripper for director John Sayles,
and Be Kind, Rewind for director Michel Gondry.
Glover has also gained respect for his wide-reaching
community activism and philanthropic efforts, with a
particular emphasis on advocacy for economic justice,
and access to health care and education programs in the
United States and Africa. For these efforts, Glover
received a 2006 DGA Honor. Internationally, Glover has
served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations
Development Program from 1998-2004, focusing on issues
of poverty, disease, and economic development in Africa,
Latin America, and the Caribbean, and serves as UNICEF
Ambassador.
In 2005, Glover co-founded Louverture Films dedicated to
the development and production of films of historical
relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic
integrity. The New York based company has a slate of
progressive features and documentaries including Trouble
the Water, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008
Sundance Film Festival, Africa Unite, award winning
feature Bamako, and most recent projects Uncle Boonmee
Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and The Disappearance of
McKinley Nolan.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Michelle
Bega
Quotes by Danny Glover
"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no
matter how successful I am."
"[In a 1985 interview] I pray. I pray a lot. I read the
Bible. I feel fortunate in that sense. I don't do it by
myself. There's somebody watching me up there, and
there's somebody watching me down here too!"
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