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Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American film, television, and stage actor and film producer. Wright portrays Muddy Waters in Cadillac Records which is the biopic about the rise and fall of Chess Records . <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jeffrey+Wright">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Jeffrey Charles Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
Wright began his career in theater, where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation (2003), earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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