Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an actor, director, producer, and political activist. He has received numerous accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the NAACP's President's Award, the Medaille des Arts et des Letters from the French Ministry of Culture, as well as nominations for five Emmy Awards and four Grammy Awards. A noted humanitarian, Glover served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998-2004, during which time he focused on issues of poverty, disease, and economic development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He was a UNICEF Ambassador.
Glover’s career as an actor began in college, where he acted in a play by artist-in-residence Amiri Baraka. He went on to act in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz in 1979. Glover range and talent has been evident in many films, including The Color Purple, the Lethal Weapon series (1987, 1989, 1992, and 1998), Grand Canyon (1991), Bopha! (1993), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Saw (2004), Be Kind Rewind (2008), Sorry to Bother You (2018), and The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019).
Glover is also acclaimed for his voice-over work, which ranges from narrating animated films- including The Prince of Egypt (1998), Antz (1998), and Our Friend, Martin (1999) - to lending his voice and aid to the American Postal Workers Union, United Auto Workers, and Service Employees International Union, amongst many other causes.
In 1994, Glover co-founded the Robey Theatre Company, a Los Angeles-based non-profit with the mission of developing new plays about the Black American experience. In 2005, he co-founded Louverture Films, a company expressly dedicated to production of socially-conscious films from around the world.