Ernie Hudson - Hollywood American actor, known for his characteristic roles. In the United States, it has become popular since its participation in the cult science fiction film Ghostbusters. Hudson is a multidisciplinary actor. He starred in films, on television, worked in the theater, and in recent years became a producer of films.
Childhood and youth
Real name Ernie Hudson - Ernest Lee. He was born in 1945, in the US state of Michigan, in the city of Benton Harbor. His mother gave birth to him without a husband, and he never knew the name of his father. But the child grew up an orphan, brought up with his grandmother. The fact is that the mother fell ill with tuberculosis when he was two months old and died. So his early childhood passed in the house of Arrana Donald, grandmother. After school, he served for three months in the Marine Corps, but was forced to quit due to asthma. He moved to the city of Detroit. There he joined the Concep East Theater, a group of which only African-Americans were members, as he himself Ernie. Hudson He graduated from Wayne State University and Drama High School in Yale.
Careers in film and theater
Since Ernie was a professional actor, his talents were soon noticed. He began acting in the 1970s. He was invited to episodic roles in various television series, such as The Dukes of Hazzard and Team A. The audience liked it after playing the voodoo priest Jam in the first episode of Fantasy Island. But he made a movie career when he got the role of Winston Zeddmore in Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman and the continuation of this fantastic comedy thriller. By the way, at the beginning of this character another actor had to play - Eddie Murphy. This role, in fact, was written for him. But after he refused to participate in the film, motivating it by employment in another film - “A Beverly Hills Policeman”, Winston Zeddmore played perfectly Ernie Hudson Film Ghostbusters was well received by both critics and spectators, and turned out to be a kind of “classic of the genre.”
Other roles
In 1992, the actor played a mentally unbalanced man named Solomon in the thriller Hand Cradling the Cradle. Then HBO offered him a role in the television series Prison Oz (a reference to the Emerald City). This penitentiary institution is a school for especially dangerous criminals, and in addition, there is a special experimental unit.
In this film, the actor acts as the prison guard Leo Glynn. This is a controversial person - a person who is trying to maintain law and order in a conflict-torn place of detention. He is called a good person at a bad job.
Interestingly, the actor’s son, Ernie Hudson Jr. ., in the same series plays a young Muslim prisoner, Hamid Khan. Other, most famous films in which Ernest Lee has starred are Congo and Raven. In the last picture he was given the role of police sergeant Albrecht. And in the 1995 adventure film "Congo" about an expedition into the depths of equatorial Africa, Hudson showed himself perfectly in the form of a conductor Munro Kelly.
In total, the actor starred in more than two hundred films and TV shows. The most significant roles of the 2000s can be called Harry MacDonald in Miss Congeniality, Norm MacLeod in Touch of an Angel, and Manny Eibar in Without a Trace. In 2006, Hudson appeared in the first episode of Stargate as Pirnox, and in Desperate Housewives, he looked great like Detective Ridley. The actor is constantly filming. In 2017, in the remake of Twin Peaks, he embodied the image of Colonel Davis.
Personal life
Ernie Hudson was married to Jenny Moore, whom she divorced in 1980. In 1985, his second chosen one was Linda Kingsberg. Since it was white, Ernest was initially afraid of this union. In many press interviews, he spoke of being afraid of problems with interracial marriage. But despite these fears, the couple lives well enough. From his first marriage, he has two sons. Ernest, Sr., followed the path of his father and became an actor. The second son, Rahman, originally wanted to name Khurshid. Ernie Hudson also has two children from Linda Kinsberg. These are the sons of Andrew and Ross. The actor, who is now more than seventy years old, positions himself as a believer, but claims that no church or religion is more right than the other. Until the end of his life, he remained a kind of "ghostbuster."