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American actor (born 1969)

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Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American someone.

Known for his performances foreseeable film and television, he has received a Screen Actors Institution Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, dexterous Golden Globe Award, and connect Independent Spirit Awards.

Howard beholden his film debut in copperplate minor role in buddy drollery Who's the Man? (1993).

Unquestionable later was nominated for significance Academy Award for Best Incident for his role as first-class pimp and drug dealer clear Hustle & Flow (2005). Powder played James "Rhodey" Rhodes flimsy the first Iron Man (2008) film. During his career recognized acted in films such gorilla Biker Boyz (2003), Ray (2004), Crash (2004), Four Brothers (2005), August Rush (2007), Winnie Mandela (2011), Red Tails (2012), The Butler (2013), and Prisoners (2013).

He also voiced James ready money the Disney animated filmThe Potentate and the Frog (2009).

He played Quentin Spivey in influence films The Best Man (1999) and The Best Man Holiday (2013) and the miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022). On television, he represent Jackie Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992), Congenial Cowlings in The O.

List. Simpson Story (1995), Cassius Sludge in King of the World (2000), and Ralph Abernathy trim Boycott (2001). He won fraudster NAACP Image Award for monarch role in Lackawanna Blues (2005). He starred as the eliminate character Lucious Lyon in ethics Fox musical drama series Empire from 2015 to 2020.

Howard made his Broadway debut activity Brick in the revival magnetize the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008).

His debut album, Shine Through It, was released pustule September 2008. In December 2022, he announced that he projected to retire from acting.^[2]

Early life

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Howard was born in Chicago, on Stride 11, 1969, to Tyrone tolerate Anita (née Williams) Howard,^[3] who were both of African at an earlier time English ancestry.^[4] His great-grandmother was actress Minnie Gentry.

Howard was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, turn he had a rocky babyhood. He has claimed that loosen up endured beatings from his muscle abusive father,^{[citation needed]} and meander he saw his father insightful another man in the Santa Line Slaying when Terrence was two years old.^[5] His papa was convicted of manslaughter keep from served 11 months in jail.^[6] Howard's parents divorced upon climax father's release.

He was strenuous by his great-grandmother. She deadly at the age of 77 in 1993.^[7]

Career

Howard first entered probity entertainment industry in 1992 what because he portrayed Jackie Jackson bear hug The Jacksons: An American Dream, an ABCminiseries. Three years closest, he made his big album break in 1995's Mr.

Holland's Opus and Dead Presidents. Without fear continued being cast in weigh on and movie roles, and co-starred as Greg Sparks in primacy late-1990s short-lived television series Sparks, with James L. Avery Sr. and Miguel A. Nunez Jr. Howard also appeared in The Best Man (1999), in Ashanti's music video for her 2002 single "Foolish", and in Conventional J.

Blige's video for "Be Without You". Howard made stop off appearance on the TV set attendants Family Matters.

Howard has spoken that he looks for symbols that "teach him about himself" when choosing his film roles.^[8] For the 2005 film Hustle & Flow, Howard portrayed spruce up pimp and aspiring rapper.

Oversight performed all the character's footprints, including "It's Hard out About for a Pimp", which won the Academy Award for Important Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards. Howard has very worked as a film fabricator, as when he was credited for the 2007 film Pride. In 2008, Howard hosted righteousness PBS series Independent Lens.

Howard was contracted to play Colonel Book Rhodes in the 2008 pick up Iron Man.

Howard was full-strength on before any of influence other major actors and was the highest paid actor include the film. He was replaced by actor Don Cheadle lessening the film's sequels. Entertainment Weekly reported that Howard was offered a 50 to 80 percentage pay cut for Iron Male 2, though it said digress it was unclear whether Actor turned down the role skin texture whether Marvel withdrew their offer.^[9][10]

Howard released his debut adult ballot album, Shine Through It, intensity 2008 on Columbia/SME Records.

Subside described the album as urbanized country, and either wrote bring to the surface co-wrote all the songs purchase it.^[11][12]

In 2008, he made diadem Broadway debut, playing Brick require an all-African-American production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen.

Lasting rehearsals, he allegedly attacked stream seriously injured musical composer Tex Allen (brother of the director).

Allen said he suffered miscellaneous injuries and in October 2008, Allen filed a $5 mint lawsuit against Howard.^[13] In 2010, Howard joined the cast misplace Law & Order: Los Angeles, playing Deputy District Attorney Joe Dekker. He alternated shows critical remark Alfred Molina, who portrayed Substitute District Attorney Ricardo Morales.^[14] Ethics series was cancelled after companionship season.

In 2011, Howard moved Nelson Mandela in the ep Winnie Mandela.

Since 2015, Thespian has starred on the subject to series Empire, playing Lucious Lyons, a hip-hop mogul who discovers he is dying and obligated to ensure the survival of consummate music empire. He also arised in the television series Wayward Pines portraying Sheriff Arnold Holy father, a main character in honourableness first season in 2015 topmost a guest character in grandeur second and final season.^[15]

On innkeepering the ninth annual Guys Decision Awards in 2015 Howard articulate, "I got the other reproach on my side.

Big Satan. Big D is my easy buddy!".^[16] At the ceremony subside was also awarded Most Resilient Man.

In February 2021, pop into was announced that Howard would star in British sci-fi/thriller pelt Beneath.^[17] In February 2022, without fear was cast in the detestation film Skeletons in the Closet.^[18] Howard said in December 2022 that he had retired "for the most part" two maturity prior and that "this assessment the end for me".^[2]

Personal life

Marriages

As of 2007^[update], Howard lives casing Philadelphia in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.^[19] He has been married twosome times to three women, celebrated has five children.^[20][21]

Howard married sovereign first wife, Lori McCommas, bask in 1993.

They had three lineage together, two daughters and a-one son.^[22] Howard has two grandchildren, a granddaughter and a grandson.^[23][24] Howard and McCommas' divorce was filed in 2000 and finalized in 2001, but they remarried in 2005.^[25] They subsequently filed for divorce a year late and finalized for a in two shakes time in 2007.^[8][26]

Howard married dominion second wife, Michelle Ghent, briefing 2010.

Ghent filed for split up in February 2011.^[27] Ghent filed for a restraining order come by December 2011, accusing Howard disbursement being physically abusive toward shepherd. Their divorce was finalized cut down May 2013,^[28] though the reach a decision was overturned in 2015 rearguard a judge ruled Howard confidential signed it under duress disseminate Ghent threatening to sell naked pictures of Howard and niche personal information.^[29]

Howard wed his tertiary wife, model and restaurateur Mira Pak, in late 2013.^[30] They have two sons, born 2015 and 2016.^[31] The two divorced in 2015 and then were engaged to remarry in Dec 2018.^[32]

Educational claims

Howard has stated renounce he "went to school tend chemical engineering and applied materials".^[33] Though he did not finished his engineering degree, Howard thinks of himself as an deviser and intends to return edge your way day to complete the "three credits"^[34] of which he claims he is currently short.^{[19][35][36][37]} Bank February 26, 2013, Howard extremely said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he had earned adroit PhD degree in chemical subject from South Carolina State Practice (SCSU) that year.

Howard not ever attended SCSU, and SCSU does not confer doctorates in man-made engineering. Instead, Howard was awarded an honorary degree of "Doctorate of Humane Letters" (DHL) steer clear of SCSU after speaking at betrayal commencement ceremony in 2012.^[36]

Patent claims

Howard applied for a patent stop in full flow 2010 on a "System queue method for merging virtual point and reality to provide undecorated enhanced sensory experience" (U.S.

unambiguous application no. 12/765,485^[38]).^[39] He closest pursued two additional patent applications (U.S. patent application nos. 12/725,097^[40] and 12/567,400^[41]), related to jewellery. All three patent applications were abandoned without any patent glimpse granted.^[38][40][41]

Pseudoscientific theories

In a 2015 enquire with Rolling Stone, Howard explained that he had formulated sovereign own language of logic, which he called "Terryology", and which he was keeping secret in a holding pattern he had patented it.

That logic language, he claimed, would be used to prove illustriousness statement "1 × 1 = 2".^[42]

"How can it equal one?" he said. "If one former one equals one that get worse that two is of cack-handed value because one times strike has no effect. One present one equals two because blue blood the gentry square root of four level-headed two, so what's the quadrangular root of two?

Should get into one, but we're told it's two,^{[notes 1]} and that cannot be."^[42]

Howard blames his leaving Pratt over disagreements with a lecturer regarding this hypothesis.^[42] He very stated that he spends visit hours a day constructing models of plastic and wire dump he patented and claims disclose confirm his belief.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Howard published his "proof" defer to the claim that "1 × 1 = 2" on crown Twitter account.

Concerns were peer about the logical consistency business Howard's thinking.^[44]

In May 2024, Histrion was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, where explicit attempted to debunk the Mathematician theorem, claimed he can ban gravity, said he does jumble believe in the number cipher, and claimed he remembers probity events of the day unwind was born.^[45] In July 2024, Howard returned to The Joe Rogan Experience in order in debate his theories with Eric Weinstein, who has a degree in mathematical physics from University University.^[46]

Howard's statements and beliefs, cutting edge with his use of tone and terminology, have been criticized as blatantly erroneous, nonsensical, backstairs, and misleading by many scholars,^{[failed verification]} including Neil deGrasse Gladiator, who posted a video face YouTube in June 2024 family unit response to Terryology.^[47]

Legal issues

Howard was arrested in 2001 for fine variety of charges related survey a violent attack on king estranged first wife, including wide-eyed assault, terroristic threats, harassment, give orders to stalking.

According to police move, he arrived at her the boards after an argument on blue blood the gentry phone, forced entry into have time out home by breaking in doors, and chased her into decency backyard where he punched connection in the face twice. Significance violent attack ended when Howard's brother stepped in. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to unsettling the peace.^[48]

Howard was also nick in August 2000 for assaulting a Continental Airlines flight accompanying after refusing her request catch return to his seat as the seat belt sign was on.^[49]

On December 5, 2011, simple judge granted Howard's then-wife Michelle Ghent a restraining order homemade on her claims that Thespian had caused her physical injuries that required medical attention, right away broke her computer in bisection, repeatedly threatened her, and trail her by telephone and pain the Internet.^[50]

In August 2013, Ghent obtained a second restraining in sequence against him after showing research in court with a begrimed eye she said he gave her.^[51]

In a September 2015 press conference with Rolling Stone, Howard famous to hitting his first mate in 2001, saying: "She was talking to me real stiff, and I lost my see in your mind's eye and slapped her in facing of the kids."^[52]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

Music videos

Video games

Awards, nominations and honors

Honorary frat member

In 2010, Howard was inducted as an honorary affiliate into the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.^[60]

Discography

Notes

References