Michael Bakari Jordan is an actor and producer from the United States. He was born on February 9, 1987. He is known for his roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Adonis Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), all of which were written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
Jordan played Creed again in Creed II (2018) and will do so again in Creed III (2023), his first movie as a director. Jordan got his start on TV, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama The Wire (2002), Reggie Montgomery on the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006), and Vince Howard in the NBC sports drama Friday Night Lights (2009–2011).
In his other movies, he played Bryan Stevenson in Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), and Just Mercy (2019). As the producer of Fahrenheit 451, Jordan was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in 2018.
Time magazine named Jordan one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020, and People magazine named him the Sexiest Man Alive.
The New York Times put him at number 15 on its list of the 25 best actors of the 21st century in the same year. Jordan is also a co-owner of the football team AFC Bournemouth, which plays in the English Premier League.
Michael B Jordan Net Worth: How Much Money Will He Have In 2023?
The American actor Michael B. Jordan has a net worth of $25 million. Jordan is best known for his roles in the movies “Fruitvale Station,” “Creed,” and “Black Panther,” as well as the TV shows “The Wire,” “All My Children,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Parenthood” (2010–2011).
Michael has won many awards for his acting, including 3 BET Awards, 5 NAACP Image Awards, and a National Society of Film Critics Award. Jordan has also been in music videos for Pleasure P, Jay-Z, and Snoh Aalegra, and his voice can be heard in “Gears of War 3,” “NBA 2K17,” “Wilson’s Heart,” and “Creed: Rise to Glory.”
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How Did Michael B Jordan Start His Career?
Jordan made his acting debut in a 1999 episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos.” That same year, he also appeared on the CBS sitcom “Cosby” and the movie “Black and White.” In 2001, he got a part in the movie “Hardball,” where he shared the screen with Keanu Reeves and Diane Lane.
The following year, Michael was in 12 episodes of the critically acclaimed HBO show “The Wire.” In 2003, he replaced a future “Black Panther” co-star on the ABC soap opera “All My Children.” Jordan was on the show until June 2006.
He was in 59 episodes, and the “Soap Opera Digest” Awards and the NAACP Image Awards nominated him for awards. Before he played the leading role in the 2007 movie “Blackout,” he was a guest star on the crime shows “Without a Trace,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and “Cold Case.”
Michael was in the movie “Pastor Brown” and episodes of the TV shows “Burn Notice” and “Bones” in 2009. The same year, he was in all 13 episodes of the Canadian sitcom “The Assistants” and started a 26-episode run on the NBC football drama “Friday Night Lights.”
In 2010, Jordan was one of the “faces of the future” in “Nylon’s” Young Hollywood Issue. He also had guest roles on “Lie to Me” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and joined the cast of “Parenthood” on NBC, where he appeared in 16 episodes. Michael was ranked #80 on BuddyTV’s list of “TV’s Sexiest Men of 2011.”
In 2012, he had guest roles on the Fox medical drama “House” and in the movies “Red Tails” and “Chronicle.” Jordan’s role as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the 2013 movie “Fruitvale Station” won him several awards, and both “People” and “Variety” called him an “actor to watch.”
“GQ” and “Entertainment Weekly,” said Michael was one of 2013’s most significant new stars. In 2015, he played Johnny Storm in “Fantastic Four,” which was a failure, but later that year, he played Apollo Creed’s son in the “Rocky” sequel/spin-off “Creed,” which got good reviews.
The movie made $173.6 million at the box office, but its sequel, “Creed II,” earned $214.1 million in 2018, which was more. Michael played the villain Erik “Killmonger” Stevens in the 2018 movie “Black Panther.”
The movie was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and made an incredible $1.347 billion at the box office, making it the second-highest-grossing film of the year. A follow-up is being made, and it will come out in 2022.
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— Michael B. Jordan (@michaelb4jordan) December 16, 2022
Jordan also starred in and produced HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451,” and in 2019, he was an executive producer for “Gen: Lock” and “Raising Dion,” both animated web series. He won an NAACP Image Award for his role as defense attorney Bryan Stevenson in the 2019 movie “Just Mercy,” which is based on the true story of a man wrongly convicted of murder.
Michael was cast as former Navy SEAL John Clark in “Without Remorse,” a movie based on a Tom Clancy book. The film was supposed to come out in 2020, but the Coronavirus pandemic pushed it back to February 2021.
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