- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 3, 1954
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York, USA
Al Sharpton
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 program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them…
Filmography
movieCarville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
2024 · Self
movieAtrocity Inc.
2024 · Self - Civil Rights Activist
movie"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
2024 · Self
tvJames Brown: Say It Loud
2024 · Self
movieSouth to Black Power
2023 · Self
movieWhen Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023 · Self
tvFight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
2023 · Self
movieLoudmouth
2022 · Self
movieThe Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieBehind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022 · Self (archive footage)
tvSherri
2022 · Self - Guest
movieRudy! A Documusical
2022 · Self
tvJANET JACKSON.
2022 · Self
movieThe First Wave
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieBlood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021 · Self
tvObama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · Self
movieSummer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Self - Minister & Activist
movieTuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
2021 · Self
movieWoman in Motion
2021 · Self
tvThe Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020 · Self
tvBy Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
2020 · Self
movieYusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
2020 · Self
movieAmerican Trial: The Eric Garner Story
2020 · Self
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
2020 · Self
movieThe Black Godfather
2019 · Self
tvBasketball: A Love Story
2018 · Self
movieAli & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018 · Self
tvFiring Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 · Self
movieUnited We Stand: The Ali Summit
2018 · self
movieSatan & Adam
2018 · Self
movieI Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self
movieMartin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018 · Self
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
2018 · Self - Civil rights activist
movieMaynard
2017 · Self
movieGet Me Roger Stone
2017 · Self (archive footage)
tvTime: The Kalief Browder Story
2017 · Self
tvStar
2016 · Rev. Al Sharpton
movieA Tale of James Brown
2016 · Self
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
movieBrave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
2015 · Self - National Action Network
tvEmpire
2015 · Rev. Al Sharpton
movieJames Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014 · Self
movie91 Bullets in a Minute
2014 · Self
movieMr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 · Self
movieWe the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
movieEvocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2013 · Self
movieKoch
2013 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Central Park Five
2012 · Self (archive footage)
tvPoliticsNation
2011 · Self
movieThe After Party: The Last Party 3
2011 · Self
movieOn the Shoulders of Giants
2011
movieLooking for Lenny
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
2011 · Self
movieRace
2010 · Self
movieOne Night in Vegas
2010 · Self
tvAmerica: The Story of Us
2010 · Self
movieMichael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
2010 · Self (archive footage)
movieGood Hair
2009 · Self
tvJoy Behar: Say Anything!
2009 · Himself
If I Die Tonight
2009 · Self
movieMoonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
2009 · Self
tvWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
movieMadea Goes to Jail
2009 · Self
movieAbraham Obama
2009 · Self
movieShooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
2009 · Self
movieDean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008 · Self
Murder in Black & White
2008
movieJames Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008 · Self
movieThe Black List: Volume One
2008 · Self
movieThe Jena 6
2007 · Self
tvWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Self
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
2006 · Self
tvThe Colbert Report
2005 · Self, Self (archive footage)
movieThe Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005
moviePursuit of Equality
2005 · Self
movieStreet Fight
2005 · Self
I Hate My Job
2004
movieCelsius 41.11
2004 · Self (archive footage)
tvTanner on Tanner
2004 · Self
tvBoston Legal
2004 · Reverend Al Sharpton
tvRescue Me
2004
movieJames Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
tvAnderson Cooper 360°
2003
tvReal Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
tvJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
movieMr. Deeds
2002 · The Rhyme Master
tvMy Wife and Kids
2001
movieBamboozled
2000 · Himself
tvGirlfriends
2000 · Al Sharpton
movieLet's Talk
2000
movieThe Subtext of a Yale Education
1999 · Self
tvLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Himself
Cold Feet
1999 · The Reverend
tvThe Chris Rock Show
1997 · , Self
tvThe Daily Show
1996 · Self - Guest
tvMS NOW Reports
1996 · Self
tvFox News Sunday
1996 · Self
movieRun For Cover
1995 · Himself
tvNew York Undercover
1994 · Self
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
movieThe Last Party
1993 · Self
tvRaw
1993 · Self
movieMalcolm X
1992 · Speaker #2
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
1990 · Self
tvSaturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)