Jussie Smollett
Year Film Role Notes
1992 The Mighty Ducks Terry Hall Nominated - Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture
1994 North Adam
2009 Pitch This Mike Short film
2012 The Skinny Magnus
2014 Born to Race : Fast Track Tariq Direct-to-video
2014 Ask Me Anything Nico Dempster
2016 The Tale of Four John Short film
2017 Alien : Covenant - Prologue : Last Supper Ricks Short film
2017 Alien : Covenant Ricks
2017 Marshall Langston Hughes
Filmography -- Film
Jussie Smollett (/ˈdʒʌsi/ JUSS-ee, born June 21, 1982) is an American actor and singer. He began his career as a child actor in 1987 acting in films including The Mighty Ducks (1992) and Rob Reiner's North (1994). In 2015, Smollett portrayed musician Jamal Lyon in the Fox drama series Empire, a role that was hailed as groundbreaking for its positive depiction of a black gay man on television. Smollett has also appeared in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien: Covenant (2017) as Ricks and in Marshall (2017) as Langston Hughes. Smollett was indicted on February 20, 2019 for disorderly conduct consisting of allegedly paying two Nigerian-American brothers to stage a fake hate crime assault on him and filing a false police report. Prosecutors dropped the charges on March 26, 2019 in return for Smollett performing community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond. Shortly thereafter, the city of Chicago filed suit against Smollett for the cost of overtime authorities expended investigating the alleged attack, totaling $130,105.15. Responding in court filings, Smollett alleged he was the victim of mass public ridicule and harm and argued he should not be made to reimburse the city for the cost of the investigation. On February 11, 2020, after further investigation by a special prosecutor was completed, Smollett was indicted again by a Cook County grand jury on six counts pertaining to making four false police reports.