James Earl Jones is the recipient of Actors' Equity Association's 2011 Paul Robeson Award, the union announced Monday. The award, created 40 years ago, is given annually to the person "who best exemplifies the principles by which Mr. Robeson lived," Equity said in a statement. Past winners include Sidney Poitier, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and Robeson himself."Mr. Robeson was blessed with many endowments—among them the scholarship and athleticism of his youth, and the activist commitment that followed his fame as a performer," Jones said in a statement to be read Oct. 14 at Equity's New York membership meeting. "Perhaps he reached the most souls (including mine) as a singer and artist in the performing arts, and in doing so, he mightily elevated the importance of art to humanity."Jones is a past recipient of two Tony Awards, four Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy. He was nominated for an.
- 10/10/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Madasyn Czebiniak)
- backstage.com
Actor, director, producer, and writer Charles Randolph-Wright has been named the recipient of the 2010 Paul Robeson Award, Actors' Equity Association announced Monday. The annual award honors individuals for their exemplary artistic and humanitarian achievements.Randolph-Wright was chosen for his efforts in creating opportunities for people of color, including Different Voices, a development program for playwrights at New York's Roundabout Theatre Company. He is the founder and artistic director of the Create Carolina Festival, an intensive multidisciplinary arts program designed to help students achieve professional success. He is also a founder of the Wright Family Foundation in South Carolina, which funds educational programs for at-risk youth."I am proud and challenged to be included on this roster of such extraordinary people who I know have changed the world," Randolph-Wright said in a written statement. "I may not yet be one of those luminaries upon whose shoulders I stand, but I believe...
- 10/5/2010
- backstage.com
James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation
The septuagenarian walking slowly through the Novello theatre in London looks like an archetypal American tourist. Tall and wide, he wears a puffy gilet that makes him seem even bulkier, while a faded baseball cap shades his face. Yet this ordinary-looking man is one of America's pre-eminent actors: James Earl Jones. Over the last 50 years, he has won two Tony awards (playing a boxer in The Great White Hope, and for his role in August Wilson's Fences), an Oscar nomination (for the film of The Great White Hope), as well as multiple Emmy nominations and awards for his TV work.
You wouldn't know any of this to look at him,...
The septuagenarian walking slowly through the Novello theatre in London looks like an archetypal American tourist. Tall and wide, he wears a puffy gilet that makes him seem even bulkier, while a faded baseball cap shades his face. Yet this ordinary-looking man is one of America's pre-eminent actors: James Earl Jones. Over the last 50 years, he has won two Tony awards (playing a boxer in The Great White Hope, and for his role in August Wilson's Fences), an Oscar nomination (for the film of The Great White Hope), as well as multiple Emmy nominations and awards for his TV work.
You wouldn't know any of this to look at him,...
- 11/23/2009
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
Well known for his film and television appearances, James Earl Jones' acting career is firmly rooted in the theater. He was part of the historic company of Jean Genet's The Blacks, which incubated a generation of future black stars, and his long association with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival saw him in classical plays including Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear. Awards for his theater work include Tony Awards for the Broadway productions of The Great White Hope and Fences, a Tony Award nomination for On Golden Pond, and Obie Awards for Clandestine on the Morning Line, The Apple, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Baal, a Theatre World Award for Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Fences. Additional theater credits include Paul Robeson, The Iceman Cometh,Of Mice and Men and seven different productions in the title role of Othello.
- 1/18/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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