Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Hounsou is known as a Beninese-American actor and model. He is most famous for his role as Cinqué in Amistad.

Background and Age

Djimon Gaston Hounsou was born on April 24, 1964 in Cotonou, Benin. He was the most youthful of five children. His father's occupation as a cook made the family generally prosperous by West African measures. Hounsou grew up communicating in French and a few tongues of Goun, the Beninois language. The constant motion picture showings in his home town made him consider a career in the entertainment biz. At thirteen years old, Hounsou was sent to Lyons, France to live with a more seasoned sibling and study to turn into a doctor. To the extraordinary disappointment of his family, he proved to be a lazy student with no enthusiasm for medication. He wanted an alternate life from the one his family arranged. Leaving school at age twenty, Hounsou floated to Paris in the wake of being tossed out of the house by his sibling. Without a spot to live or working papers that enabled him to find a new line of work, Hounsou wound up dozing on seats and washing himself outdoors.

Married, Wife and Kids

Djimon started dating American fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons in 2007. They have a child named Kenzo Lee. Their relationship reached a conclusion in 2012 as a result of Djimon cheating on Kimora with Sudanese-Egyptian author Kola Boof. Djimon has also previously dated Debbie Allen and actress Cameron Diaz.

Career and Net Worth

Hounsou's performance in the authentic epic Amistad was broadly lauded and caused a lot to notice the beforehand minimal known actor. Directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Debbie Allen, Amistad recounted to the genuine story of a bleeding uprising on a slave ship destined for Cuba in 1839. The caught Africans requested that the group members staying alive return the ship to Africa. Rather, the team cruised north to the United States where the Africans were imprisoned while their destiny was chosen in a court fight setting American abolitionists against pro-subjection powers who saw the Africans as property having a place with slaveholders.

In November 2019, it was reported that the Charlie's Angels reboot tumbled at the box office. The popular actress, Elizabeth Banks directed, produced, featured in and co-wrote the screenplay for the Charlie's Angels reboot. The film, which got a score of 58% on Rotten Tomatoes, opened underneath target objectives with $8.6 million locally and $19.3 million abroad. Djimon had a key role in the film as Edgar Bosley.