DUNCAN, Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke Duncan was born Dec. 10, 1957 in Chicago (Illinois, USA). Brought up by his single mother. While in school, Duncan wanted to play in American football, but his mother, for fear that he himself something hurt, forbade him to enter the pitch. At the university, Alcorn, Mississippi Michael Clarke Duncan studied communications, but because of the illness of the mother was forced to leave school. In his native Chicago, he joined the gas company (digging trenches), worked as a bouncer in nightclubs. Then it as a security guard hired a theatrical producer, and in the end, Duncan found himself in Hollywood. In Los Angeles, he eventually got an agent, though the bread had to earn an impressive figure of a bodyguard - he, among others, had a chance to guard Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
His acting the way Michael Clarke Duncan started with television, starred in commercials, soap operas, television series. Debut of his roles have become bodyguards - in this capacity, he appeared in the films "Players Club" and "Bulvort". Breakthrough for the novice actor was fantastic blockbuster "Armageddon", the commercial success of which allowed him to get roles in the prestigious Hollywood projects. The Green Mile "(1999), shot by Frank Darabont Stephen King's book, Duncan played the role of John Coffey, and in criminal comedy" The Whole Nine Yards "(2000) by Jonathan Lynn he got one of the leading roles, Frankie Figsa.