Michael B. Jordan
Birthdate: February 9, 1987 (39 Years Old)
Birthplace: Santa Ana, California, USA
Michael B. Jordan (birthname: Michael Bakari Jordan) is one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising stars to quickly expanded his talents into producing and directing. Jordan’s feature debut at age 13 was producer-director Brian Robbins’ Hardball (2001), about Chicago inner-city youth baseball, grossing $44 million. After seven years, Jordan returned to features in a supporting role in writer-director Jerry Lamothe’s indie drama, Blackout (2007), co-starring Zoe Saldana, LaTanya Richardson, Saul Rubinek, Melvin Van Peebles, and Jeffrey Wright, and premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Red Tails (2012), depicting the legendary WW2 unit, the Tuskegee Airmen, was Jordan’s next feature acting assignment, playing opposite Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, and David Oyelowo, and written by John Ridley, and grossing under costs at $50.4. million. The first hit movie with Jordan in the cast was 20th Century Fox’s superhero thriller, Chronicle (2012), directed and co-written by Josh Trank and co-starring Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, and Michael Kelly, and grossing nearly ten times its costs with a global return of $126.6 million.
Michael B. Jordan’s breakthrough performance was in writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Oakland-based indie drama, Fruitvale Station (2013), with Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, and Kevin Durand, and earning 17 times its costs with a $17.4 million box office after a smash festival run at Sundance and Cannes, where it won the Camera d’Or for the best debut film. Jordan then co-starred with Zac Efron and Miles Teller in writer-director Tom Gormican’s comedy, That Awkward Moment (2014), grossing five times its costs with a $40.5 million global return. Jordan’s second superhero movie with writer-director Trank was the MCU-based The Fantastic Four (2015), starring Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, and Tim Blake Nelson, and grossing a disappointing $168 million (against a $155 million budget).
Michael B. Jordan’s next big leap to stardom happened with the Rocky reboot, Creed (2015), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, and co-starring Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, and Phylicia Rashad, and grossing a quadrupled total (above $40 million costs) of $173.6 million worldwide. This launched one of two major franchises co-starring Jordan, the other being Coogler’s Marvel mega-hit, Black Panther (2018), with Jordan playing Killmonger opposite Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett, and Forest Whitaker, and earning nearly $1.4 billion for Marvel and distributor Disney.
After serving as executive producer (plus a cameo) on the sci-fi thriller, Kin (2018), with Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, and Zoe Kravitz, Michael B. Jordan returned to his franchise work starring in Creed II (2018), with Dolph Lundgren joining the cast of regulars from the original movie, and grossing $214 million globally. Jordan starred and produced in his next three feature projects: the true story Just Mercy (2019), written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and co-starring Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson, and doubling $25 million costs with a $50.4 million box office return; Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (2021) for Amazon Prime; and one of Jordan’s few commercial failures, the family drama A Journal for Jordan (2021), directed by Denzel Washington and co-starring Chanté Adams and Jalon Christian.
Jordan revived his Killmonger character in a cameo for writer-director Coogler’s successful sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), which underperformed its predecessor’s box office take with $858 million worldwide. For the first time, Jordan was star-director-producer on Creed III (2023), with new castmates Jonathan Majors and Wood Harris.
Jordan starred as twin brothers in director/writer/producer Ryan Coogler’s 1930s-set supernatural horror movie, Sinners (2025), with Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell and Delroy Lindo, and released by Warner Bros. Jordan starred and produced in the tentatively titled Thomas Crown Affair Project (date to be announced) as well as the Paramount Pictures action-adventure under Chad Stahelski’s direction, Rainbow Six (date to be announced).
Michael B. Jordan then took on two sequels, including the fourth entry in the Creed franchise, Creed IV (date to be announced), directed by and starring Jordan, co-starring Tessa Thompson, and produced by Irwin Winkler. Jordan was a producer as well as co-star with Will Smith in the sequel, I Am Legend 2 (date to be announced), directed by Francis Lawrence and written and co-produced by Akiva Goldsman.
Personal life
Michael B. Jordan was born and raised in his youngest years in Santa Ana, California by parents Donna and Michael A. Jordan. Jordan has two siblings, Khalid and Jamila. Jordan’s family moved to Newark, New Jersey when he was two years old. Even as he was working as a child and adolescent actor in commercials and TV, Jordan attended and graduated from Newark High School, where he played on the school basketball team.
Jordan moved to Los Angeles when he was nineteen. In 2018, Jordan bought a Sherman Oaks home in the San Fernando Valley so his parents could live with him. Jordan was in a relationship with comedian Steve Harvey’s daughter, Lori, from 2020 to 2022. Jordan has no children. His height is 6’. Jordan’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
Awards
Winner, Best Ensemble Award, CinemaCon (2015); Nominee, Best Male Lead, Independent Spirit Awards (2014); Winner, Breakthrough Actor, Gotham Awards (2013); Five-time Winner, Best Actor/Entertainer of the Year/Best Supporting Actor/Best Actor—TV Movie or Series, NAACP Image Award (2016, 2019, 2020); Winner, Best Villain, MTV Movie + TV Awards (2018); Winner, Breakthrough Performance, National Board of Review (2013); Winner, Best Actor, National Society of Film Critics Awards (2016); Winner, Best Streamed or Televised Motion Picture, Producers Guild of America Awards (2019); Winner, Best Cast, Screen Actors Guild (2019).
Michael B. Jordan Movies
Actor
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- 2023 |
- 2021 |
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
asJohn Kelly
John Clark, a Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.
- 2021 |
A Journal for Jordan
asCharles King
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
- 2019 |
Just Mercy
asBryan Stevenson
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
- -- | as Smoke
- -- | as Erik Killmonger
- -- | Creedas Adonis Johnson
- -- | That Awkward Momentas Mikey
- -- | Fruitvale Stationas Oscar Grant
- -- | Chronicleas Steve Montgomery
- -- | as Killmonger
- -- | Red Tailsas Maurice Wilson
Director
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Previous (4)
- 2023 |
- 2021 |
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
John Clark, a Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife's murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.
- 2021 |
A Journal for Jordan
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
- 2019 |
Just Mercy
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Facts About Michael B. Jordan
Sports Owner: Michael B. Jordan is a part-owner of the British football club AFC Bournemouth, as of December 2022.
What’s in a Name?: So as not to be confused with the basketball legend, Michael B. Jordan inserted his middle initial for his Screen Actors Guild-accredited name.
