Tracy Morgan

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Tracy Morgan (born November 10, 1968 in New York City , New York , USA) is an American actor and comedian , who became known for his role on Saturday Night Live . He also plays the role of Tracy Jordan in the US sitcom 30 Rock . He was also with Chris Rock in the comedy Die Wants to Be Learned to See. His autobiography I am the new Black was published on October 20, 2009 in the USA.

Previous life and career

Morgan, who was born in New York in 1968 to musician Jimmy Morgan, attended De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx . Before he was discovered in 1984 during a stand-up show at the Apollo Theater in New York, he worked as a painter for L&L Painting and the Rose Company, among others . When Morgan was 17 years old, his father died of AIDS.

Morgan gained his first experience in the television business in the Harlem- recorded comedy show Uptown Comedy Club , where he appeared regularly between 1992 and 1998. The show was broadcast on various US channels until 1998. At around the same time, he also played the supporting character Hustle Man in the US series Martin , which was produced until 1997.

Morgan first became known to a wider audience when he appeared regularly on the NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1996 and 2003 . There he embodied a variety of characters, including Brian Fellow (s), Dominican Lou and Bishop Don "Mack" Donald. On March 14, 2009, Morgan returned to host the show and once again slipped into the roles of his former characters Brian Fellow and Astronaut Jones.

Then Morgan got his own sitcom, The Tracy Morgan Show, on NBC in 2003, but this was canceled after one season and was never shown in Germany.

Since October 2006, Morgan has appeared on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock , where he plays the self-made character Tracy Jordan . After his performance received good reviews, he was nominated at the Emmy Awards in 2009 for the category "Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series", but could not win there. In 2007 and 2008 he received nominations in the same category for the same role at the "Image Awards".

In addition to appearing in the aforementioned sitcoms, Morgan was also seen in various other programs. He hosted the first Spike Guys Choice Award in June 2007, appeared in the MTV series Punk'd , and promoted video games with various athletes, such as: B. ESPN NBA basketball or ESPN NFL 2K and, in addition to roles in various programs on Comedy Central, also made a short appearance in the comedy Game Without Rules with leading actor Adam Sandler . Morgan had one of his most popular roles in the film business when he starred with Bruce Willis in the 2010 action comedy Cop Out .

Private life

In 1985, Morgan married his high school sweetheart Sabrina, with whom he has three sons. After 23 years of marriage, he filed for divorce in 2008.

In 1996 Morgan was diagnosed with diabetes ; however, he hardly took this diagnosis seriously and refused appropriate medication. After an incident occurred on the set of 30 Rock , he decided to obey the doctors' orders. Some of Morgan's personal troubles were written on the series.

Morgan was several times for drunk driving arrested . In November 2009, many viewers left Morgan's Carnegie Hall show after half an hour because they were " shocked by his jokes about homosexuality , pornography and drugs ."

On June 6, 2014, Morgan was killed in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Cranbury and was placed in an artificial coma in the hospital . A truck driving on behalf of the supermarket chain Walmart had rammed a minibus in which Morgan was a passenger. A passenger and close friend of Morgan, James McNair, was killed in the accident. After five weeks in hospital and rehabilitation , Morgan sued Walmart for negligence in July 2014. The driver of the truck drove too fast and was overtired, so the allegation. In May 2015, Walmart and Morgan reached an out-of-court settlement in exchange for approximately $ 90 million in payment to Morgan.

In August 2015, Morgan married his partner Megan Wollover.

Trivia

In April 2018 he was honored with the 2,633th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death at a Funeral: Remake with Chris Rock
  2. ↑ 61. Emmy Awards: The nominations ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tv-tipps.net
  3. ↑ Tracy Morgan in the Notable Names Database (English)
  4. ^ "For Tracy Morgan, Every Day Is a Show"
  5. ^ Audience members walk out of Tracy Morgan's bawdy Carnegie Hall performance
  6. ↑ CNN : Actor Tracy Morgan in critical condition after wreck in New Jersey
  7. ↑ By Ralph Ellis, Joe Sutton and Faith Karimi CNN: Actor Tracy Morgan in critical condition after wreck, officials say - CNN.com. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ By Laura Smith-Spark and Carolyn Sung CNN: Tracy Morgan sues Walmart over deadly crash - CNN.com. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Tracy Morgan settles lawsuit with Wal-Mart for undisclosed sum . In: Reuters . May 27, 2017 ( reuters.com [accessed May 24, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Staff: From Rowan Atkinson to Cristiano Ronaldo, here are 5 Celebrities who have wrecked their ultra-luxury cars into piles of scrap metal. January 29, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ Tracy Morgan Marries Megan Wollover . In: PEOPLE.com . August 23, 2015 ( people.com [accessed May 24, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Tracy Morgan | Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved June 15, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Tracy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, USA