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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson is known for acting, with popular credits including Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, BaadAsssss Cinema.

Born 08 Oct 1941 Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.

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Known for Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, BaadAsssss Cinema.

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2024 Hollywood Black as Self (archive footage) tv 2023 South to Black Power as Self movie 2022 Loudmouth as Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage) movie 2022 El otro Rey de Chicago as Self movie 2021 Punch 9 for Harold Washington movie 2021 Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over as Self movie 2021 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union as Self tv 2021 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self movie 2021 September First, Twenty-Twenty as Himself movie 2021 Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story as Self movie 2021 Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street as Self (archive footage) movie 2021 Killing Martin Luther King Jr. as Self movie 2021 Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy as Self (archive footage) movie 2020 Obama as Self tv 2020 Bernie Blackout as Self (archive footage) movie 2020 Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story as Self movie 2019 Stax, le label soul légendaire as Self (archive footage) movie 2019 Chicago at the Crossroad as Self movie 2018 Shut Up and Dribble as Self - Civil Rights Leader tv 2018 The Road to Mass Incarceration as Self movie 2018 Explained as Self (archive footage) tv 2018 Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America as Self movie 2018 I Am MLK Jr. as Self movie 2018 Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self movie 2017 LA 92 as Self (archive footage) movie 2016 '85: The Greatest Team in Football History as Self movie 2016 Crashing the Party as Self movie 2016 Fantastic Lies as Himself (archive footage) movie 2014 We Are Many as Self movie 2013 Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self movie 2012 MLK: The Assassination Tapes as Self (archive Footage) movie 2011 A Man's Story as Self movie 2009 Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound as Self movie 2009 Joy Behar: Say Anything! tv 2009 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel as Self movie 2009 Michael Jackson Memorial as Self movie 2009 The Nine Lives of Marion Barry as Self movie 2009 Anecdotes about Fidel movie 2008 The Day the Troubles Began as Self movie 2008 Ballou as Himself movie 2007 King: Man of Peace in a Time of War as Self movie 2006 Robins as Self - Guest tv 2005 The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer tv 2004 Tanner on Tanner as Self tv 2003 Real Time with Bill Maher as Self tv 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self tv 2002 Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony as Self (archive footage) movie 2002 BaadAsssss Cinema as Self movie 2001 Last Party 2000 as Self movie 1999 The Subtext of a Yale Education as Self movie 1999 University, Inc. as Self (Archive Footage) movie 1997 4 Little Girls as Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition movie 1997 The Chris Rock Show as Self tv 1997 Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory movie 1996 The Daily Show as Self tv 1996 The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self (archive footage) movie 1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Cocky Locky (voice) tv 1994 Baseball as Various (voice) tv 1994 The Soul of Stax as Self movie 1993 Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham as Self movie 1992 America's Political Parties: Power and Principle as Self movie 1989 Decade as Self movie 1989 Route One/USA as Self movie 1988 Jackie Robinson: An American Journey as On Screen Narrator movie 1988 Tanner '88 as Himself (uncredited) tv 1987 A Different World as Himself tv 1986 In Remembrance of Martin as Self movie 1983 Not Necessarily the News as Self (archive footage) tv 1983 Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy as Self movie 1982 Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip as Self - Audience Member (uncredited) movie 1980 A Decade of Struggle as Self movie 1980 A Matter of Respect movie 1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host tv 1975 Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited) tv 1974 Dinah! as Self tv 1973 Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 as Self/Cameo (archive footage) movie 1973 Save the Children as Self movie 1973 Wattstax as Self movie 1972 Nationtime as Self movie 1971 We Are Universal movie

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Who is Jesse Jackson?

Jesse Jackson is known for acting, with popular credits including Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, BaadAsssss Cinema.

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Jesse Jackson is 84 years old, based on the birthday listed by TMDB.

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Jesse Jackson is known for credits including Punch 9 for Harold Washington, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, BaadAsssss Cinema, Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story.

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