Personal Info
Birthday
October 8, 1941
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Known For
Acting
Jesse Jackson
Biography
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'.
Acting Filmography (77)
3.7
Hollywood Black
TV Series2024
3.5
South to Black Power
Movie2023
6.0
Loudmouth
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
El otro Rey de Chicago
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Movie2021
6.5
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Movie2021
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
TV Series2021
7.6
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie2021
No Backdrop
9.0
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Movie2021
0.0
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Movie2021
7.4
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie2021
No Backdrop
0.0
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Movie2021
6.8
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Movie2021
0.0
Obama
TV Series2020
7.0
Bernie Blackout
Movie2020
No Backdrop
0.0
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Movie2019
4.0
Chicago at the Crossroad
Movie2019
1.0
Shut Up and Dribble
TV Series2018
No Backdrop
0.0
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Movie2018
7.5
Explained
TV Series2018
0.0
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Movie2018
8.8
I Am MLK Jr.
Movie2018
0.0
Velshi
TV Series2017
7.7
LA 92
Movie2017
8.2
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Movie2016
No Backdrop
0.0
Crashing the Party
Movie2016
7.3
Fantastic Lies
Movie2016
No Backdrop
6.7
We Are Many
Movie2014
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie2013
7.4
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Movie2012
6.9
A Man's Story
Movie2011
6.7
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Movie2009
No Backdrop
0.0
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
TV Series2009
6.0
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Movie2009
No Backdrop
8.0
Michael Jackson Memorial
Movie2009
No Backdrop
5.6
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Movie2009
No Backdrop
0.0
Anecdotes about Fidel
Movie2009
No Backdrop
8.5
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Movie2007
7.8
Robins
TV Series2006
3.8
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
TV Series2005
No Backdrop
10.0
Tanner on Tanner
TV Series2004
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV Series2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV Series2003
6.5
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Movie2002
6.0
BaadAsssss Cinema
Movie2002
6.8
Last Party 2000
Movie2001
No Backdrop
0.0
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Movie1999
No Backdrop
8.0
University, Inc.
Movie1999
7.2
4 Little Girls
Movie1997
4.6
The Chris Rock Show
TV Series1997
No Backdrop
10.0
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Movie1997
6.4
The Daily Show
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
10.0
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Movie1996
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV Series1995
7.5
Baseball
TV Series1994
No Backdrop
0.0
The Soul of Stax
Movie1994
7.0
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Movie1993
0.0
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Movie1992
No Backdrop
8.5
Decade
Movie1989
7.4
Route One/USA
Movie1989
6.9
Tanner '88
TV Series1988
7.1
A Different World
TV Series1987
No Backdrop
8.0
In Remembrance of Martin
Movie1986
6.9
Not Necessarily the News
TV Series1983
7.4
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Movie1982
0.0
A Decade of Struggle
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
A Matter of Respect
Movie1980
6.9
Saturday Night Live
TV Series1975
7.0
Dinah!
TV Series1974
9.0
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Movie1973
6.5
Save the Children
Movie1973
6.7
Wattstax
Movie1973
8.0
Nationtime: Gary
Movie1972
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie1970
No Backdrop
0.0
Operation Breadbasket
Movie1969
6.8
Uptight
Movie1968
No Backdrop
7.0
World in Action
TV Series1963