When it comes to day Djimon Hounsou net worth amounts to $12 million and I believe that is enough of a evidence he has been professionally successful. And in case you examine his private life, at the choices he made while still essentially a child, you’ll note that his present bundle is nearly a wonder.
The future millionaire was created in a somewhat poor family in Cotonou, Bnin and immigrated to France in the age 13. The teen failed to come there with his parents, it was just his Brother by his side. Shortly Djimon lost out of school. Years later while speaking relating to this era of his life the performer said: School bored me. Being well-informed and being intelligent are two things. I really thought I had been smart enough. And I wished to be an entertainer. I quit going to school as a means of saying I was mature, a style of saying I would pick who I would become.” Looking in the present Djimon Hounsou net worth, leaving school to pursue career in entertainment business may not appear to be a poor conclusion. But it had been just because of the absolute luck, the adolescent failed to find yourself living in the gutters and became an actor instead. Concerning when the teenager left school, Djimon Hounsou net worth was essentially identical to zero and he had nowhere to live.
In 2002 Djimon appeared on an very commercially successful and critically acclaimed film Gladiator. Not only these characters have garnered Gladiator a variety of prestigious awards, in addition they fostered Djimon Hounsou net worth to the present heights.
Right after arriving to America, he made his film debut on Without You I’m Nothing. Seven years later the celebrity got critical acclaim for the portrayal of Cinque on Amistad.
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, Critics'...
Movies
The Legend of Tarzan, Blood Diamond, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gladiator, Furious 7, Amistad, Never Back Down, The Island, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Constantine, Seventh Son, Push, Beauty Shop, The Vatican Tapes, The Tempest, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Elephant White, Baggage Claim...
TV Shows
Black Panther, Wayward Pines
Star Sign
Taurus
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I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.
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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
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The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.
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My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.
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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
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We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
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Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.
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It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.
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I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.
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I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.
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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
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If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
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The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
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Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
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Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.
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I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
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Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
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Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
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The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. Meanwhile, we have Africans and African-Americans, contemporary men, with great stories, great integrity, great heroes and nobody wants to see or hear about those African heroes and those African-American heroes. One day, I will be in a position to play those great human beings on-screen.
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School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become. --Daily News, December 3, 1997.
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Has a son, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, born May 30, 2009. Mother is ex-fiancée Kimora Lee Simmons.
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His ex-fiancée was Kimora Lee Simmons. They were in a relationship from 2007-2012.
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Learned English by watching television.
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Fourth male African to receive an Oscar-nomination for acting. The other three were Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway and Omar Sharif. All four men were nominated for 'Best Supporting Actor'.
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On ER (1994), he played Mobalage Ikabo, a refugee from Nigeria. His actual homeland of Benin shares its largest border with Nigeria.
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Was in Janet Jackson video "Love Will Never Do Without You" (1992).
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Came to Paris from Benin at the age of 13, couldn't find a job and ended as a vagrant, sleeping under bridges and rummaging in trash cans for food. Things changed for the better when fashion designer Thierry Mugler discovered him and made him a fashion model.