Jussie Smollet is an actor and part of the very successful “Empire” tv series! He is openly gay and an activist!
He was viciously jumped one of the previous days. News that shocked the whole nation!
So let’s find out some facts about this famous actor’s life
- Jussie Smollett was born in June 21, 1982
- He is an American actor, singer, director and photographer
- He began his career as a child actor in 1987
- He was starring in commercials and films
- These include The Mighty Ducks (1992) and Rob Reiner’s North (1994)
- In 2015, Smollett attracted international attention
- He also received rave reviews for his portrayal of musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox drama series Empire
- Smollett has also appeared in Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Alien: Covenant as Ricks and in Marshall as Langston Hughes
- Jussie Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, California
- He is the third of six children born
- His parents are Janet and Joel Smollett
- He has three brothers and two sisters
- Their names are Jake, Jocqui, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jazz
- Several of them are also actors
- His father was Jewish
- His mother is African-American
- Jussie Smollett graduated from Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus, NJ
- Jussie Smollett began his acting career as a child
- On television, he starred alongside his five real-life siblings in the short-lived ABC sitcom On Our Own from 1994–95
- In 2012, Smollett returned to acting with the leading role in Patrik-Ian Polk’s LGBT-themed comedy-drama The Skinny
- Also that year, he released an EP album titled The Poisoned Hearts Club
- He later guest-starred on The Mindy Project (2012)
- He had a guest appearence on Revenge (2014)
- In 2014,Jussie Smollett was cast as Jamal Lyon
- He was playing a gay musician who struggles to gain his father’s approval
- He was starring pposite Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard in the Fox drama series Empire
- His role was hailed as “groundbreaking” for its positive depiction of a black gay man on television
- Smollett reprised his role in subsequent seasons
- He also directed an episode of the fourth season in 2017
- In February 2015, Smollett confirmed that he had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records
- He would be releasing an album in the future
- Jussie Smollett co-wrote the songs “I Wanna Love You” and “You’re So Beautiful” on the Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire album
- The album was released in March 2015
- Ιn June 2015, it was announced that Smollett would guest-star alongside his younger sister, Jurnee, on Underground
- It aired on 2016
- Smollett came out as gay during a televised interview with Ellen DeGeneres in March 2015
- In a 2016 interview with Out magazine, Smollett clarified his sexual orientation
- His statemnet was “If I had to label myself, I would label myself as a gay man.”
- As a boy, Jussie Smollett had some romantic interest in girls
- When Smollett’s gay character Jamal Lyon from Empire engaged in a heterosexual tryst with a female character, Smollett defended the plot
- On January 29, 2019, Smollett was attacked in Chicago
- It was described as a possible hate crime
- Smollett said to police that he was attacked after leaving a fast-food restaurant by two white men in ski masks, who made racial and homophobic slurs
- According to a statement released by the Chicago Police Department, the two suspects then poured an unknown liquid on Smollett and put a noose around his neck
- Jussie Smollett said that he fought off the attackers
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