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Hamilton broadway debut8/25/2023 ![]() ![]() He is also a member of hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme. Jackson's film and TV work includes Moana, Tracers, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, A Gifted Man, and Nurse Jackie. Beginning with the 2016–2017 season, he plays Chunk Palmer in the CBS courtroom drama Bull. He was nominated for a Tony Award and concluded his run on November 13, 2016. In 2015, Jackson originated the role of President George Washington in the musical Hamilton on Broadway. That same year he portrayed Vertus in the short lived Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me which was based on the life of Tupac. He remained with the production when it moved to Broadway in 2014. In 2013 he appeared as Derek Jeter and Bobby Sturges in the Eric Simonson's Off-Broadway play Bronx Bombers at Primary Stages. In 2012 he returned to Broadway as Delray in Memphis, and in 2013 he replaced Everett Bradley as "Diga Diga Doo" in the Broadway musical After Midnight. In 2009 Jackson was tapped to write music for the revived children's television program The Electric Company. He continued with the show when it moved to Broadway in 2008. The cast won the 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. In 2007 he returned to New York to join the cast of the Off-Broadway musical In the Heights as Benny. He then did work in the theater scenes in Chicago and Minneapolis–Saint Paul, notably earning a BATC Award nomination for Best Actor for Beggar's Holiday in 2004 for and winning a Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago's equivalent to the Tony Awards) in 2006 for Comfortable Shoes. He later took over the role of Simba in 2000. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member and the understudy for Simba in the Original Broadway Cast of The Lion King. Jackson began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot of Hair fame. Īfter graduating from high school, Jackson attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. He credits Pilots basketball coach Larry Baldwin and Pastor Larry Potts of Mighty Rivers Regional Worship Center as other important mentors during his formative years in Cairo. She also cast him in a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. ![]() While a student there, he performed in plays and was encouraged to pursue a career as an actor by one of his high school teachers, Lynn Steveson, who also led the school's debate team of which Jackson was a part. In 1993 he graduated from Cairo High School. In 2018, Jackson received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.īorn in Metropolis, Illinois, and raised in Cairo, Illinois, by his mother, Jane Adams, a vocal music teacher, and stepfather Herbert Michael Hodges. He has also written music for LL Cool J, Sean Kingston, and will.i.am. Also active as a film and television composer, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song for "What I Am" for the children's television program Sesame Street. His other television work includes the recurring role of Perry Loftus in the HBO prison drama Oz and guest appearances on Fringe, Gossip Girl, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife and White Collar. Jackson starred as Chunk Palmer in the main cast of the CBS television drama Bull between 2016-2022. His other film work includes secondary roles in After.Life and Tracers. He also collaborated with Miranda on the Disney film Moana in which he provides the singing voice of Chief Tui. For the latter role he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. ![]() He drew critical acclaim in several projects with Lin-Manuel Miranda: originating the roles of Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton. He went on to perform leading roles in several more Broadway musicals and plays, including After Midnight, Bronx Bombers, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and Memphis. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the original Broadway cast of Disney's The Lion King. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot at the age of 20. Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer.
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