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She also starred in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Cat People (1982), Do the Right Thing (1989), and American Gangster (2007). Her film debut was That Man of Mine (1946). For her performance as Mahalee Lucas in American Gangster (2007), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As of 2019, she stands as the second ...
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- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- New Rochelle, New York, USA
She also starred in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Cat People (1982), Do the Right Thing (1989), and American Gangster (2007). Her film debut was That Man of Mine (1946). For her performance as Mahalee Lucas in American Gangster (2007), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As of 2019, she stands as the second ...
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- June 11, 2014
makeup artist: Thailand (as Pie Arunyaphuti) Qodi Armstrong. ... key hair stylist: second unit. John Caglione Jr. ... makeup artist: Mr. Crowe. Carol 'Ci Ci' Campbell.
- Denzel Washington. Denzel Washington played lead character Frank Lucas, a criminal and gangster from La Grande, North Carolina, who became known for smuggling drugs into the United States.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor. (Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage) Chiwetel Ejiofor played Frank's brother Huey Lucas in the film and, since then, his star has only continued to rise, with him starring in a slew of high profile films like Salt, The Martian and Doctor Strange.
- Cuba Gooding Jr. (Photo: Sonia Recchia/WireImage) played Frank's drug competitor and fellow criminal Nicky Barnes in the 2007 film, coming, like Denzel, years after his Oscar win.
- Joe Morton. Joe Morton played the role of Charlie Williams in the crime film, but it wasn't until a few years after its release that he became a household name to an entirely new generation.
Acting superstars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are captivating in this absorbing crime epic set in the early 1970s. Washington is real-life Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, and Crowe plays ...
- Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
