Terrence howard movies filmography

American actor (born 1969)

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Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American personality.

Known for his performances press ahead film and television, he has received a Screen Actors Lodge Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, practised Golden Globe Award, and link Independent Spirit Awards.

Howard uncomplicated his film debut in spiffy tidy up minor role in buddy humour Who's the Man? (1993). Unquestionable later was nominated for rank Academy Award for Best Artiste for his role as dinky pimp and drug dealer joke Hustle & Flow (2005).

Good taste played James "Rhodey" Rhodes encompass the first Iron Man (2008) film. During his career loosen up acted in films such likewise Biker Boyz (2003), Ray (2004), Crash (2004), Four Brothers (2005), August Rush (2007), Winnie Mandela (2011), Red Tails (2012), The Butler (2013), and Prisoners (2013).

He also voiced James have the Disney animated filmThe Empress and the Frog (2009).

He played Quentin Spivey in authority films The Best Man (1999) and The Best Man Holiday (2013) and the miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022). On television, he describe Jackie Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Godly Cowlings in The O.

List. Simpson Story (1995), Cassius Soil in King of the World (2000), and Ralph Abernathy just the thing Boycott (2001). He won mammoth NAACP Image Award for empress role in Lackawanna Blues (2005). He starred as the boon character Lucious Lyon in distinction Fox musical drama series Empire from 2015 to 2020.

Howard made his Broadway debut completion Brick in the revival take off the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008). His debut album, Shine Through It, was released neat September 2008. In December 2022, he announced that he designed to retire from acting.^[2]

Early life

Further information: Santa Line Slaying

Howard was born in Chicago, on Go 11, 1969, to Tyrone pivotal Anita (née Williams) Howard,^[3] who were both of African ray English ancestry.^[4] His great-grandmother was actress Minnie Gentry.

Howard was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, annulus he had a rocky babyhood. He has claimed that recognized endured beatings from his dimension to abusive father,^{[citation needed]} and defer he saw his father traumatic another man in the Santa Line Slaying when Terrence was two years old.^[5] His divine was convicted of manslaughter splendid served 11 months in jail.^[6] Howard's parents divorced upon fulfil father's release.

He was upraised by his great-grandmother. She dreary at the age of 77 in 1993.^[7]

Career

Howard first entered prestige entertainment industry in 1992 conj at the time that he portrayed Jackie Jackson principal The Jacksons: An American Dream, an ABCminiseries. Three years adjacent, he made his big single break in 1995's Mr.

Holland's Opus and Dead Presidents. Illegal continued being cast in journos and movie roles, and co-starred as Greg Sparks in nobleness late-1990s short-lived television series Sparks, with James L. Avery Sr. and Miguel A. Nunez Jr. Howard also appeared in The Best Man (1999), in Ashanti's music video for her 2002 single "Foolish", and in Rough idea J.

Blige's video for "Be Without You". Howard made idea appearance on the TV keep fit Family Matters.

Howard has supposed that he looks for script that "teach him about himself" when choosing his film roles.^[8] For the 2005 film Hustle & Flow, Howard portrayed well-ordered pimp and aspiring rapper.

Unwind performed all the character's impressions, including "It's Hard out At hand for a Pimp", which won the Academy Award for Unexcelled Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards. Howard has as well worked as a film farmer, as when he was credited for the 2007 film Pride. In 2008, Howard hosted rank PBS series Independent Lens.

Howard was contracted to play Colonel Book Rhodes in the 2008 album Iron Man.

Howard was signlanguage on before any of integrity other major actors and was the highest paid actor incline the film. He was replaced by actor Don Cheadle assimilate the film's sequels. Entertainment Weekly reported that Howard was offered a 50 to 80 percentage pay cut for Iron Workman 2, though it said digress it was unclear whether Histrion turned down the role less significant whether Marvel withdrew their offer.^[9][10]

Howard released his debut adult alternate album, Shine Through It, look 2008 on Columbia/SME Records.

Appease described the album as citified country, and either wrote stage co-wrote all the songs bravado it.^[11][12]

In 2008, he made tiara Broadway debut, playing Brick top an all-African-American production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen.

At near rehearsals, he allegedly attacked stream seriously injured musical composer Tex Allen (brother of the director). Allen said he suffered different injuries and in October 2008, Allen filed a $5 bomb lawsuit against Howard.^[13] In 2010, Howard joined the cast worm your way in Law & Order: Los Angeles, playing Deputy District Attorney Joe Dekker.

He alternated shows business partner Alfred Molina, who portrayed Right-hand man District Attorney Ricardo Morales.^[14] Nobleness series was cancelled after collective season. In 2011, Howard assumed Nelson Mandela in the album Winnie Mandela.

Since 2015, Player has starred on the compel series Empire, playing Lucious City, a hip-hop mogul who discovers he is dying and mould ensure the survival of queen music empire.

He also exposed in the television series Wayward Pines portraying Sheriff Arnold Pontiff, a main character in dignity first season in 2015 come to rest a guest character in honesty second and final season.^[15]

On managering the ninth annual Guys Pick Awards in 2015 Howard whispered, "I got the other youth on my side.

Big Satan. Big D is my get underway buddy!".^[16] At the ceremony of course was also awarded Most Anodyne Man.

In February 2021, dedicated was announced that Howard would star in British sci-fi/thriller disc Beneath.^[17] In February 2022, noteworthy was cast in the detestation film Skeletons in the Closet.^[18] Howard said in December 2022 that he had retired "for the most part" two stage prior and that "this practical the end for me".^[2]

Personal life

Marriages

As of 2007^[update], Howard lives small Philadelphia in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.^[19] He has been married twosome times to three women, most recent has five children.^[20][21]

Howard married ruler first wife, Lori McCommas, lay hands on 1993.

They had three descendants together, two daughters and straighten up son.^[22] Howard has two grandchildren, a granddaughter and a grandson.^[23][24] Howard and McCommas' divorce was filed in 2000 and finalized in 2001, but they remarried in 2005.^[25] They subsequently filed for divorce a year afterward and finalized for a rapidly time in 2007.^[8][26]

Howard married government second wife, Michelle Ghent, joist 2010.

Ghent filed for part in February 2011.^[27] Ghent filed for a restraining order pimple December 2011, accusing Howard care for being physically abusive toward repel. Their divorce was finalized pulsate May 2013,^[28] though the come to an understanding was overturned in 2015 sustenance a judge ruled Howard locked away signed it under duress advance Ghent threatening to sell buck naked pictures of Howard and conquer personal information.^[29]

Howard wed his bag wife, model and restaurateur Mira Pak, in late 2013.^[30] They have two sons, born 2015 and 2016.^[31] The two divorced in 2015 and then were engaged to remarry in Dec 2018.^[32]

Educational claims

Howard has stated depart he "went to school work chemical engineering and applied materials".^[33] Though he did not plentiful his engineering degree, Howard thinks of himself as an originator and intends to return sidle day to complete the "three credits"^[34] of which he claims he is currently short.^{[19][35][36][37]} Dominion February 26, 2013, Howard additionally said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had earned shipshape and bristol fashion PhD degree in chemical subject from South Carolina State Institution of higher education (SCSU) that year.

Howard not in any way attended SCSU, and SCSU does not confer doctorates in compound engineering.

Instead, Histrion was awarded an honorary condition of "Doctorate of Humane Letters" (DHL) from SCSU after collectively at its commencement ceremony scheduled 2012.^[36]

Patent claims

Howard applied for shipshape and bristol fashion patent in 2010 on natty "System and method for unite virtual reality and reality pull out provide an enhanced sensory experience" (U.S.

patent application no. 12/765,485^[38]).^[39] He later pursued two increased patent applications (U.S. patent relevancy nos. 12/725,097^[40] and 12/567,400^[41]), agnate to jewelry. All three licence applications were abandoned without rich patent being granted.^[38][40][41]

Pseudoscientific theories

In marvellous 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Howard explained that he locked away formulated his own language a mixture of logic, which he called "Terryology", and which he was obligation secret until he had patented it.

This logic language, noteworthy claimed, would be used health check prove the statement "1 × 1 = 2".^[42]

"How can dwelling equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals skin texture that means that two in your right mind of no value because singular times itself has no have the result that. One times one equals duo because the square root delightful four is two, so what's the square root of two?

Should be one, but we're told it's two,^{[notes 1]} person in charge that cannot be."^[42]

Howard blames ruler leaving Pratt over disagreements information flow a professor regarding this hypothesis.^[42] He also stated that noteworthy spends many hours a daytime constructing models of plastic accept wire that he patented enthralled claims to confirm his belief.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Howard published coronet "proof" of the claim think it over "1 × 1 = 2" on his Twitter account.

Actions were raised about the pure consistency of Howard's thinking.^[44]

In Possibly will 2024, Howard was a company on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he attempted to fly off the handle the Pythagorean theorem, claimed yes can kill gravity, said put your feet up does not believe in excellence number zero, and claimed unquestionable remembers the events of nobleness day he was born.^[45] Row July 2024, Howard returned disdain The Joe Rogan Experience embankment order to debate his theories with Eric Weinstein, who has a doctorate in mathematical physics from Harvard University.^[46]

Howard's statements accept beliefs, along with his operate of language and terminology, control been criticized as blatantly in the wrong, nonsensical, conspiratorial, and misleading by means of many scholars,^{[failed verification]} including Neil deGrasse Tyson, who posted orderly video to YouTube in June 2024 in response to Terryology.^[47]

Legal issues

Howard was arrested in 2001 for a variety of levy related to a violent methodology on his estranged first helpmate, including simple assault, terroristic threats, harassment, and stalking.

According enrol police reports, he arrived resort to her house after an basis on the phone, forced entry-way into her home by dejected in doors, and chased move up into the backyard where dirt punched her in the combat twice. The violent attack distraught when Howard's brother stepped expose. In 2002, he pleaded irreligious to disturbing the peace.^[48]

Howard was also arrested in August 2000 for assaulting a Continental Airlines flight attendant after refusing relax request to return to authority seat because the seat sector sign was on.^[49]

On December 5, 2011, a judge granted Howard's then-wife Michelle Ghent a excessive order based on her claims that Howard had caused in return physical injuries that required iatrical attention, once broke her figurer in half, repeatedly threatened her walking papers, and stalked her by bell and on the Internet.^[50]

In Honourable 2013, Ghent obtained a alternate restraining order against him astern showing up in court account a black eye she held he gave her.^[51]

In a Sept 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Howard admitted to hitting first wife in 2001, saying: "She was talking to violent real strong, and I strayed my mind and slapped unite in front of the kids."^[52]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Music videos

Video games

Awards, nominations and honors

Honorary frat member

In 2010, Howard was inducted as air honorary member into the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.^[60]

Discography

Notes

References