Michael B. Jordan

American actor (born 1987)

Born

9 February 1987, Santa Ana

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, executive producer

Films here

4 (1 as director, 4 as cast)

Michael Bakari Jordan ( bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and 2023, People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2020, and in 2020 was ranked 15th on The New York Times list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century.

Jordan initially gained recognition in television, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002). He starred in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). He later starred in and produced the HBO television film Fahrenheit 451 (2018), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Sylvester Stallone
• Tessa Thompson
• Phylicia Rashad
• Wood Harris
• Tony Bellew
• Florian Munteanu
• Jacob Duran
• Ryan Coogler
• José Benavidez
• Terence Crawford

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q3308007 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.