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- NAME: Samuel L. Jackson
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor
- BIRTH DATE: December 21, 1948 (Age: 64)
- EDUCATION: Morehouse College
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington, D.C.
- Full Name: Samuel Leroy Jackson
- ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
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Samuel L. Jackson is known as one of the hardest-working Hollywood actors. In 2011, he was named the highest-grossing actor of all time.
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To add to his many successes, The Guinness Book of World Records named Samuel L. Jackson the highest grossing movie actor of all time in 2011. The majority of Jackson's estimated $7.2 billion in wealth comes from his big franchise films Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction and Star Wars.
Jackson and Richardson were married in 1980, and they currently reside in Encino, California, with their daughter Zoe. When a reporter asked why his wife stayed with him during his wilder years,
he replied, "She always says to me that I have now grown into the man that she always knew I could be."
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