Al Sharpton

Actor Oct 3 (age 71) New York City, New York, USA 1975–2024 (49 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the p…

Known For

Film

Malcolm X

Speaker #2

Film

Mr. Deeds

The Rhyme Master

Film

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Self - Minister & Activist

Film

Madea Goes to Jail

Self

Film

Get Me Roger Stone

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

The Central Park Five

Self (archive footage)

Film

Bamboozled

Himself

Film

Good Hair

Self

Filmography

Acting (107)

Movies (68)

WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited

2024

as Self

Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid

2024

as Self

6.2

Atrocity Inc.

2024

as Self - Civil Rights Activist

10.0

South to Black Power

2023

as Self

3.5

When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story

2023

Rudy! A Documusical

2022

as Self

The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Loudmouth

2022

as Self

6.0

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

2022

as Self (archive footage)

Woman in Motion

2021

as Self

6.8

The First Wave

2021

as Self (archive footage)

6.6

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021

as Self - Minister & Activist

7.6

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

2021

as Self

7.3

Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage

2021

as Self

Uncle Tom

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort

2020

as Self

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

2020

as Self

6.4

American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

2020

as Self

The Black Godfather

2019

as Self

6.6

United We Stand: The Ali Summit

2018

as self

Satan & Adam

as Self

I Am MLK Jr.

as Self

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

2018

as Self

Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

2018

as Self

7.2

Prince: the Last Year of a Legend

2018

as Self - Civil rights activist

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

2018

as Self

Get Me Roger Stone

2017

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.0

Maynard

2017

as Self

5.2

A Tale of James Brown

2016

as Self

Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice

2015

as Self - National Action Network

91 Bullets in a Minute

2014

as Self

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

2014

as Self

6.9

James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message

2014

as Self

8.0

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

Koch

2013

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.9

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

2013

as Self

6.0

The Central Park Five

2012

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Looking for Lenny

2011

as Self (archive footage)

5.4

On the Shoulders of Giants

2011

6.3

Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story

2011

as Self

The After Party: The Last Party 3

2011

as Self

Race

as Self

One Night in Vegas

as Self

Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?

2010

as Self (archive footage)

Madea Goes to Jail

as Self

Good Hair

as Self

If I Die Tonight

as Self

Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez

2009

as Self

Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored

2009

as Self

10.0

Abraham Obama

2009

as Self

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

2008

as Self

6.6

The Black List: Volume One

2008

as Self

6.5

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

2008

as Self

The Jena 6

2007

as Self

Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story

2006

as Self

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

Pursuit of Equality

as Self

Street Fight

as Self

Celsius 41.11

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

James Brown: Soul Survivor

Mr. Deeds

as The Rhyme Master

Bamboozled

as Himself

Let's Talk

Cold Feet

as The Reverend

The Subtext of a Yale Education

1999

as Self

Run For Cover

as Himself

The Last Party

as Self

Malcolm X

as Speaker #2

Television (39)

James Brown: Say It Loud

2024

as Self

8.0

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

as Self

Sherri

as Self - Guest

JANET JACKSON.

as Self

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

2021

as Self

5.3

The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart

2020

as Self

By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

2020

as Self

3.3

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

2018

as Self

7.5

Basketball: A Love Story

2018

as Self

7.3

Time: The Kalief Browder Story

as Self

Star

as Rev. Al Sharpton

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Empire

as Rev. Al Sharpton

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.2

PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton

2011

as Self

2.5

America: The Story of Us

2010

as Self

8.2

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

Joy Behar: Say Anything!

2009

as Himself

Murder in Black & White

2008

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2006

as Self

7.5

The Colbert Report

2005

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

Boston Legal

2004

as Reverend Al Sharpton

Rescue Me

Tanner on Tanner

as Self

I Hate My Job

2004

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

Anderson Cooper 360°

My Wife and Kids

Girlfriends

as Al Sharpton

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Himself

The Chris Rock Show

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

Fox News Sunday

as Self

MS NOW Reports

as Self

New York Undercover

as Self

Raw

as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host