Name: | Ernie Hudson |
Occupation: | Actor |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 183 cm (6′ 1”) |
Birth Day: | December 17, 1945 |
Age: | 75 |
Birth Place: | Benton Harbor, United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius |
Ernie Hudson
Trivia
Physique
Height | Weight | Hair Colour | Eye Colour | Blood Type | Tattoo(s) |
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183 cm (6′ 1”) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Before Fame
He was a supporting actor in films like The Dukes of Hazzard before hitting fame with his performance in Ghostbusters.
Biography
Biography Timeline
Hudson married his first wife, Jeannie Moore, in 1963, when she was sixteen and he was eighteen. They had two sons, Ernie Hudson Jr. and Rahaman Hudson. When Ernie and Jeanie divorced in 1976, their sons moved to live with Hudson in California. Hudson remarried in 1985 to a former flight attendant Linda Kingsberg; they also had two sons, Andrew and Ross.
Hudson joined the United States Marine Corps immediately after high school but was discharged after only three months on medical grounds due to asthma. Having moved to Detroit, Michigan, he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest black theatre company in the United States. He enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills, graduating in 1973. He established the Actors’ Ensemble Theatre where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works. He was briefly in a doctoral program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities before leaving to appear in a stage production of The Great White Hope. Later, he studied toward a Master of Fine Arts in acting at Yale School of Drama, but left after a year to appear in Leadbelly.
Hudson was cast as Warden Leo Glynn on HBO’s series Oz. On Oz, his son Ernie Hudson Jr. co-starred with him as Muslim inmate Hamid Khan. Hudson also appears as the character Munro in Congo (1995) and as Police Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow (1994). He switched gears when he played a preacher opening the eyes of a small town’s prejudice in the 1950s in Stranger in the Kingdom. He is also known for his role as Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullock’s character in the feature film Miss Congeniality (2000). He appears in the Stargate SG-1 episode “Ethon” as Pernaux. Hudson also appeared as Reggie in the film The Basketball Diaries (1995). In 2006, he appeared in the television movie The Ron Clark Story as Principal Turner. In 2008, he began a recurring role as Dr. Fields on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Hudson also had a recurring role on the final season of Law & Order as Lt. Anita Van Buren’s boyfriend and then fiancé.
In 2011, he played Stuart Owens in Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Beginning in 2015, Hudson was cast in a recurring role as Jacob, an organic farmer who is the romantic interest for Frankie Bergstein (Lily Tomlin) in the series Grace and Frankie.
Hudson appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, playing Bill Jenkins, the uncle of Leslie Jones’ lead character Pattie Tolan. In August 2019, he confirmed his involvement in Ghostbusters: Afterlife directed by Jason Reitman, joining original cast members, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Annie Potts. The movie is scheduled for release on June 11, 2021.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Ernie Hudson is 75 years, 10 months and 9 days old. Ernie Hudson will celebrate 76th birthday on a Friday 17th of December 2021.
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