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FILE - James Earl Jones poses with his honorary Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. His father left the family after he was born, first pursuing a career as a boxer and then as an actor.
His mother had to spend time away from her son to support the family, and Jones’ maternal grandparents adopted him and brought him with them when they moved to Michigan.James Earl Jones, left, and wife Cecilia Hart at the Governors Ball following the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Jones said he was often quiet as a child because of a stutter, an experience he said helped teach him how to listen to others.. That revelation helped lead to an interest in performing, and he ultimately studied drama at the University of Michigan. However, he noted in several interviews as an adult that he still considered himself a stutterer.Jones found success in the New York theatre scene relatively quickly. By 1963, he was starring in an off-Broadway production of “Othello.” That same year, he made his first film appearance as Lt. Lothar Zogg in Stanley Kubrick’s “for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Joe Goodwin in the TV series “East Side/West Side.” Jones married actress Julienne Marie in 1968, though the pair divorced four years later. In 1982, he married actress Cecilia Hart, whom he met on the set of the 1979 TV series “Paris.” They had a son, Flynn Jones, and were married for 34 years, untilJones, however, continued to take on new roles, appearing in numerous projects that included a 2014 return to Broadway to star in a revival of “You Can’t Take It With You” and in a revival of “The Gin Game” in 2015. He also continued to voice some of his best-known characters, including reprising his role as Darth Vader in 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” and asrecreated for future Star Wars projects He reprised his role as King Jaffe Joffer from “Coming to America” in its 2021 sequel, “Coming 2 America.” In 2022, a Broadway theatre was renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre in his honour.“There was nobody supposed to be well-known in our family,” he said. “That was not supposed to happen. Something odd about it.”Five Years After Its Broadway Debut, Hamilton Arrives On Disney+ To A Nuanced ResponseBy entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our
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