Djimon Hounsou Signs With Buchwald

Matt Grobar
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EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou, the actor known for his Academy Award-nominated performances in Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond and Jim Sheridan’s In America, has signed with Buchwald for representation.

Most recently, Hounsou has been seen starring opposite David Harbour and Orlando Bloom in Sony’s Gran Turismo, based on the hit video games, as well as Zack Snyder’s Netflix space opera Rebel Moon, which will have its second installment debut on April 19. On June 28, he’ll be seen starring alongside Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn in Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One from filmmaker Michael Sarnoski, reprising his role of Henri from 2020’s A Quiet Place Part II.

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Breaking out with his starring role in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 drama Amistad, which earned him both a Golden Globe nomination and an NAACP Image Award, Hounsou subsequently went on to star in the films Gladiator, Constantine, and The Island, among others. Over the course of his career of more than three decades, he’s also been seen in many of Hollywood’s top franchises, with performances in Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, The King’s Man, the Shazam! series and the aforementioned A Quiet Place horror flicks, as well as voice work in DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2.

The founder of Fanaticus, an independent production company geared toward championing and promoting the stories of Africa, Hounsou directed and starred under the banner in the 2018 doc In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven. Following the actor as he returns to his home country of Benin, the film weaves together a story of a man rediscovering the core of his past and the lessons that the world can learn from a misrepresented way of life.

Also known for his work as an activist, Hounsou appeared before the United States Senate on behalf of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act in 2008, opening the UN General Assembly with a speech about the impact of climate change on developing nations the following year. On December 2, 2019, which marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, he took to the United Nations in New York City to announce the formation of the Djimon Hounsou Foundation, a California-based nonprofit aiming to reconnect the African Diaspora with the motherland and combat both modern-day slavery and human trafficking.

Hounsou continues to be represented by Range Media Partners and Nelson Davis.

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