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Michael Clarke Duncan Biography

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Famous as :

Actor

Birth Date :

December 10, 1957

Birth Place :

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Claim to fame :

As John Coffey in "The Green Mile" (1999)

Biography


by AceShowbiz.com

honors of Oscar, Golden Globes, plus Actors nominations in supporting actor category by the following year. Unmistakably shot right away to widespread prominence afterwards, he wisely treasured the moment to keep scoring great in the industry through a series of high-grossing pictures which included "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "The Scorpion King" (2002), and "Daredevil, The Movie" (2003). The success wonderfully still continued in 2005 when two movies he starred in namely "Sin City" and "The Island" also resulted superbly in worldwide box office, gaining over 158 million U.S. dollar each which no doubt elevated his profile several notch higher abroad.

2006 still saw Michael strike gold in film industry when his vehicle that year "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" collected a remarkable total gross of nearly $163 million around the world. Next appeared in two 2007 productions of "The Last Mimzy" and "Slipstream", the large-framed actor quickly got back to comedy genre in 2008 through "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" alongside Martin Lawrence and Mike Epps while lending his voice in DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda." The same year would also find him reprising his role as Manute in "Sin City 2", ...

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followed by another for "Sin City 3" (2009), both again directed by duo Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.

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