# Louis Gossett Jr.

> He was the first Black actor to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor — the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman who made that category matter in 1982. Before that, Roots. After, a long run as the franchise colonel in Iron Eagle and a sixty-year span of steady work that outlasted most careers.

*American actor (1936–2024)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/louis-gossett-jr

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1936-05-27
- **Died:** 2024-03-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gossett made his stage debut at seventeen and shortly after landed the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. Through the late fifties and sixties he worked in critically acclaimed theater — A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, The Blacks in 1961, Tambourines to Glory, The Zulu and the Zayda. In 1977 he appeared in the miniseries Roots and won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance. Five years later he took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman, the first African-American to win in that category. He continued across film and television for decades — the Iron Eagle series from 1986 to 1995, Stargate SG-1, Boardwalk Empire, Watchmen, and a final turn in the 2023 Color Purple. He died in March 2024, seventy years deep in the industry.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.8 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 25.3 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
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- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001283/ (@nm0001283)

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Movies, #Film Directing, #Voice Acting, #Literature, #Theatre

## Sources
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