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He always wanted to act, but had to drop out of the communication program at Alcorn State University to support his family when his mother became ill. When he was younger, he wanted to play football, and tried out for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), but decided to become an actor instead when his mother refused to let him play. He also had voice roles in films such as Brother Bear (2003), Kung Fu Panda (2008), and Green Lantern (2011), and as Benjamin King in the video game Saints Row (2006).ĭuncan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in a single-parent household with his sister, Judy, by his mother Jean Duncan (a house cleaner) after his father left.

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He also appeared in motion pictures such as Armageddon (1998), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Scorpion King (2002), Sin City (2005), and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), as well as in the role of Leo Knox in the television series Bones (2011) and its spin-off The Finder (2012). He was best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other honors, and for playing Kingpin in Daredevil and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (both 2003). Michael Clarke Duncan (December 10, 1957 – September 3, 2012) was an American actor.

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