Djimon Hounsou Net Worth

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Djimon Hounsou Net Worth: Djimon Hounsouuu is an Oscar-nominated Beninese-American actor and model who has a net worth of $12 million. Born in Benin in 1964, he later moved to France as a teenager and began pursuing a modeling career in Paris. In 1990, he moved to the United States and started appearing in music videos for artists including Madonna, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. His first big screen role was in “Without You I’m Nothing” and he went on to secure parts in “Alias”, “ER”, “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Stargate”.

He received his first Academy Award nomination in 2004 for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “In America”. Two years later, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars for his part as Solomon Vandy in “Blood Diamond”. Other TV and film credits include “Gladiator”, “Push”, Baggage Claim” and “Never Back Down”. He had a small role in the 2015 film “Fast & Furious 7”. Hounsou is a former Calvin Klein underwear model and appeared in promos for the 2010 FIFA World Cup on ESPN. He is an advocate for increasing awareness about global warming and climate changing, even speaking out at a U.N. Summit. He took part in a traditional Benin commitment ceremony with model Kimora Lee Simmons in 2008, though it was not a legal marriage in the US. They split in 2012 after having one child together, a son named Kenzo Lee Hounsou, in 2009.

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Inspirational Quotes by Djimon Hounsou

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

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I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

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