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Name
Al Sharpton

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1954-10-03 (72 years old)

Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings.

Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them.

His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change."

(Wikipedia)

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2021 Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali as Self
2018 Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes as Self
1993 The Last Party as Self
2009 Good Hair as Self
2018 Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald as Self
2005 Street Fight as Self
2023 When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story as Self
2021 The First Wave as Self (archive footage)
2022 Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL as Self (archive footage)
1999 The Subtext of a Yale Education as Self
1992 Malcolm X as Speaker #2
2006 Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story as Self
2022 Rudy! A Documusical as Self
2022 The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM as Self (archive footage)
2010 One Night in Vegas as Self
2005 Pursuit of Equality as Self
2003 James Brown: Soul Survivor
2016 A Tale of James Brown as Self
2023 South to Black Power as Self
2012 The Central Park Five as Self (archive footage)
2024 Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid as Self
2017 Maynard as Self
2008 The Black List: Volume One as Self
2002 Mr. Deeds as The Rhyme Master
1995 Run For Cover as Himself
2009 Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez as Self
2014 91 Bullets in a Minute as Self
1999 Cold Feet as The Reverend
2020 Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn as Self
2000 Bamboozled as Himself
2005 The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2014 We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2011 On the Shoulders of Giants
2008 James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston as Self
2021 Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage as Self
2009 Madea Goes to Jail as Self
2000 Let's Talk
2017 Get Me Roger Stone as Self (archive footage)
2010 Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop? as Self (archive footage)
2011 Looking for Lenny as Self (archive footage)
2004 Celsius 41.11 as Self (archive footage)
2019 The Black Godfather as Self
2020 American Trial: The Eric Garner Story as Self
2021 Woman in Motion as Self
2018 Satan & Adam as Self
2018 I Am MLK Jr. as Self
2018 Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self
2015 Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice as Self - National Action Network
2014 Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown as Self
2013 Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie as Self
2011 The After Party: The Last Party 3 as Self
2010 Race as Self
2009 If I Die Tonight as Self
2009 Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored as Self
2008 Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary as Self
2014 James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message as Self
2009 Abraham Obama as Self
2013 Koch as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 Atrocity Inc. as Self - Civil Rights Activist
2024 "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary) as Self
2018 Prince: the Last Year of a Legend as Self - Civil rights activist
2020 Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort as Self
2018 United We Stand: The Ali Summit as self
2021 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self - Minister & Activist
2007 The Jena 6 as Self
2022 Loudmouth as Self
2011 Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story as Self
1990 Seven Days in Bensonhurst as Self

2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 7 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2000 Girlfriends ( 2 episodes ) as Al Sharpton
2001 My Wife and Kids ( 1 episode )
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Himself
1996 MS NOW Reports ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Anderson Cooper 360° ( 4 episodes )
2004 Rescue Me ( 1 episode )
2005 The Colbert Report ( 1 episode ) as Self
2016 Star ( 1 episode ) as Rev. Al Sharpton
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2004 Boston Legal ( 2 episodes ) as Reverend Al Sharpton
2004 I Hate My Job ( 7 episodes )
2021 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2008 Murder in Black & White ( 4 episodes )
2018 Basketball: A Love Story ( 3 episodes ) as Self
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1997 The Chris Rock Show ( 2 episodes )
2022 Sherri ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2010 America: The Story of Us ( 6 episodes ) as Self
1994 New York Undercover ( 1 episode ) as Self
2017 Time: The Kalief Browder Story ( 1 episode ) as Self
1993 Raw ( 1 episode ) as Self
2009 Joy Behar: Say Anything! ( 2 episodes ) as Himself
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher ( 6 episodes ) as Self
2023 Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2006 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2024 James Brown: Say It Loud ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2022 JANET JACKSON. ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2011 PoliticsNation ( 7 episodes ) as Self
2020 The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart ( 10 episodes ) as Self
1996 Fox News Sunday ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 The Chris Rock Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 Empire ( 1 episode ) as Rev. Al Sharpton
2004 Tanner on Tanner ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2012 Steve Harvey ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2020 The Joy Reid Show ( 1 episode ) as Self

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