| Jméno: | Jordan Peele |
| Datum narození: | 1979-02-21 |
| Místo narození: | New York City, New York, USA |
| Výška: | 1.71 m |
| IMDb ID: | nm1443502 |
Jordan Haworth Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his film and television work in the comedy and horror genres. Peele started his career in sketch comedy before transitioning his career as a writer and director of psychological horror and satirical films. In 2017, Peele was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Peele's breakout role came in 2003, when he was hired as a cast member on the Fox sketch comedy series Mad TV, where he spent five seasons, leaving the show in 2008. In the following years, he and his frequent Mad TV collaborator, Keegan-Michael Key, created and starred in their own Comedy Central sketch comedy series Key & Peele (2012–2015). The series was critically acclaimed, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. The two wrote, produced, and starred in the comedy film Keanu (2016) and appeared in various projects since. His 2017 directorial debut, the horror film Get Out, was a critical and box office success, for which he received numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, along with nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Critics have frequently named Get Out as one of the best films of the 21st century. He received another Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for producing Spike Lee's drama BlacKkKlansman (2018). He directed, wrote, and produced the acclaimed films Us (2019) and Nope (2022). He founded the film and television production company Monkeypaw Productions in 2012. He wrote and produced Candyman (2021), and Wendell and Wild (2022). Peele has also voice acted in the animated films Storks (2016), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) and Toy Story 4 (2019), as well as in the adult animated sitcom Big Mouth (2017–present). He co-created the TBS comedy series The Last O.G. (2018–2022) and the YouTube Premium comedy series Weird City (2019). He also served as the host and producer of the CBS All Access revival of the anthology series The Twilight Zone (2019–2020).
- As a child, Jordan Peele appeared on a March 1994 ABC News special called "President Clinton Answering Children's Questions". The question he asked President Clinton, "Um, yeah, I was just wondering, how can you help the families where there's a mom, and she's taking care of a kid or kids, and the father isn't willing or isn't able to pay child support?," was inspired by his own family's situation.
- He and comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key made cameos as 'gangstas' in the music video for 'Weird Al' Yankovic's parody "White & Nerdy" (2006).
- In 2018, he became the first African-American screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He won the award for Uteč (2017).
- He was so insulted when Sony offered him the role of Poop in Emoji ve filmu (2017) that this inspired him to retire from acting and focus entirely on being a screenwriter and film director.
- After his feature film writing/directing debut Uteč (2017) debuted to near-unanimous critical acclaim and blockbuster box office earnings, Peele announced that he had up to four other films that would be horror features that, like his first film (which dealt with racism) would address social issues through a genre framework. Producer Jason Blum said separately that his Blumhouse production group would make all of those films with Peele.
- He auditioned by playing Barack Obama for Saturday Night Live (1975) and was offered to become a feature player but when the Writer's Strike came to pass in 2008, he found out that MADtv (1995) would be continuing and lost the role and the opportunity to be on "SNL". "SNL" cast member Fred Armisen plays Obama on that show and Peele now gets to write and perform his own Obama sketches on Key and Peele (2012).
- Along with partner Keegan-Michael Key, one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. (April 2014)
- His father, Hayward Peele, was African-American, from a North Carolina family. His mother, Lucinda J. Williams, is white, and has English, with more distant Scottish and Dutch, ancestry. She is the daughter of Earl Haworth Williams and Josephine Helen Taylor, and has roots in the United States going back to Colonial America of the 1600s, specifically Maryland and Massachusetts.
- He and his wife Chelsea Peretti had their first child together (2017).
- Merited a place in Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage penned by writer-director Barry Jenkins. (May 2017)
- Resided in the Netherlands for several years.
- Both he and partner Keegan-Michael Key were dramatically featured in a series of comic-photo examples of fictional employees demonstrating "The Saintly Way to Succeed" in a cover story and lengthy article with that title in the March 31, 2013 issue of New York magazine.
- Has directed one actor to an Academy Award nomination: Daniel Kaluuya, who was nominated for Uteč (2017).
- To date, he has worked with three cast members from the Marvel film Black Panther (2018), on three of his feature films: Daniel Kaluuya (W'Kabi), Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia) and Winston Duke (M'Baku).
- His mother, Lucinda Williams, is not the singer/songwriter.
