American Gangster
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- In Ridley Scott
… (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), and Body of Lies (2008). He later helmed the action adventure Robin Hood (2010), which starred Crowe and Cate Blanchett; Prometheus (2012), a sci-fi thriller that revisited the eerie world of Alien; and The Counselor (2013),
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- Brolin
- In Josh Brolin: Stardom: No Country for Old Men and Milk
…corrupt detective in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, a popular crime drama that starred Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Even more notable, however, was the Coen brothers’ bloody western No Country for Old Men, an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel. Brolin portrayed Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran who finds a
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- In Josh Brolin: Stardom: No Country for Old Men and Milk
- Common
- In Common
…films included the crime drama American Gangster (2007), the sci-fi adventure Terminator Salvation (2009), and the comedy Date Night (2010). From 2011 to 2014 Common had a starring role as a formerly enslaved person working on the transcontinental railroad in the TV series Hell on Wheels. He subsequently appeared in…
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- Crowe
- In Russell Crowe
…Denzel Washington) to justice in American Gangster (2007). He subsequently appeared in the CIA thriller Body of Lies (2008) and State of Play (2009), in which he played an investigative reporter.
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- In Russell Crowe
- Dee
- In Ruby Dee
…Way Back Home (2006) and American Gangster (2007). Her performance as the mother of a drug kingpin (played by Denzel Washington) in the latter film earned Dee her first Academy Award nomination. She continued to appear in numerous television productions, including the TV movies The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990);…
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- Elba
- In Idris Elba
…as 28 Weeks Later (2007), American Gangster (2007), and Obsessed (2009). In 2011 he joined the Marvel Comics universe as the Norse deity Heimdall in Thor (2011), a role that he reprised in Thor 2: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor:
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- Gooding
- In Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Gooding appeared in American Gangster (2007), portrayed neurosurgeon Ben Carson in the television movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009), costarred with Terrence Howard in the war thriller Red Tails (2012), played a worker in the White House kitchen in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and portrayed…
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- In Cuba Gooding, Jr.
- Washington
- In Denzel Washington
…Crowe’s determined narcotics officer in American Gangster (2007) and as a dispatcher caught in the middle of a subway train hijacking in Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).
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