Michael B Jordan father: Michael A. Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan (/bkri/; February 9, 1987) is an actor and film producer from the United States. He is most recognized for his appearances in Ryan Coogler’s drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Donnie Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018). Jordan played Creed again in Creed II (2018) and Killmonger in…
Michael Bakari Jordan (/bkri/; February 9, 1987) is an actor and film producer from the United States.
He is most recognized for his appearances in Ryan Coogler’s drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Donnie Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018).
Jordan played Creed again in Creed II (2018) and Killmonger in What If…? (2021), and he is set to star in Creed III and direct it (2022).
Jordan rose to prominence on television, with parts such as Wallace in the first season of HBO’s criminal thriller The Wire (2002) and Bryan Stevenson in Just Mercy (2019).
As a producer of the television film Fahrenheit 451, Jordan was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in 2018.
Jordan was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential persons in the world, as well as People’s Sexiest Man Alive, in 2020.
In the same year, he was ranked #15 in The New York Times’ list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the Twenty-First Century.
Michael B Jordan’s father: Michael A. Jordan
Michael A. Jordan, Michael B. Jordan’s father, began a family custom of only modifying the middle initial of their names.
Michael B. Jordan recently revealed on Ellen Degeneres’ show that he would not be continuing his family’s naming tradition.
Jordan discussed the pressures of living up to his family name, saying, “The pressure I had to live up to my father’s name, and I’m not going to put it on my son.”
