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Leslie Odom Jr.

Highest Rated: 100% Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023)

Lowest Rated: 7% Music (2021)

Birthday: Aug 6, 1981

Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA

Leslie Odom Jr.'s early acting career consisted of parts on a wide variety of programs such as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999-), "Gilmore Girls" (2000-07) and "CSI: Miami" (CBS, 2002-2012). He also appeared in "The Big House" (2003-04), "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 2004-) and "Close to Home" (CBS, 2005-07). Several more television roles followed in the early 2000s, including stints on "Threshold" (2005-06), "Big Day" (ABC, 2006-07) and "The Bill Engvall Show" (TBS, 2006-09). He also appeared in "Vanished" (2006-07), "Zeke & Luther" (Disney XD, 2008-2011) and "NCIS: Los Angeles" (CBS, 2009-). In his more recent career, he tackled roles on "House of Lies" (2011-), "Person of Interest" (CBS, 2011-16) and "Smash" (NBC, 2011-13). He also appeared in the action movie "Red Tails" (2012) with Terrence Howard. Odom's distinctive voice could be heard on "Stories From the Road to Freedom" (History, 2012-13). While maintaining a steady career as a guest actor on television, Odom made his Broadway breakthrough in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, in which he played the key role of Aaron Burr, for which he won the Best Actor Tony Award in 2016. That same year, he released his self-titled debut album.

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Highest rated movies

100% 89% Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
Watchlist
98% 89% Hamilton Watchlist 98% 77% One Night in Miami Watchlist 91% 92% Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Watchlist 74% 97% Harriet Watchlist 72% 59% The Many Saints of Newark Watchlist 60% 54% Murder on the Orient Express Watchlist
40% 57% Red Tails
Watchlist
38% 51% Needle in a Timestack Watchlist 37% 31% Only Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 89% Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas Self - 2023
22% 58% The Exorcist: Believer Victor Fielding (Character) $65.5M 2023
91% 92% Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Lionel (Character) - 2022
38% 51% Needle in a Timestack Nick (Character) - 2021
72% 59% The Many Saints of Newark Harold McBrayer (Character) $8.2M 2021
7% 15% Music Ebo (Character) - 2021
98% 77% One Night in Miami Sam Cooke (Character) - 2020
98% 89% Hamilton Aaron Burr (Character) - 2020
37% 31% Only Will (Character) - 2019
74% 97% Harriet William Still (Character) $43.0M 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stucco Throne - Crowning Arm (Character) - 2019
60% 54% Murder on the Orient Express Dr. Arbuthnot (Character) $101.5M 2017
40% 57% Red Tails Walter "Winky" Hall (Character) $49.9M 2012

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Performances Purlie Victorious Judson (Character),
Music Performer
2020 2024
No Score Yet 55% The Kelly Clarkson Show Music Performer,
Guest
2020-2021 2023
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Music Performer,
Guest
2016 2023
No Score Yet 12% The View Music Performer,
Guest
2016 2021 2023
97% 79% Central Park Owen (Voice) 2020-2022
99% 86% Abbott Elementary Draemond (Character) 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Your Roots Guest 2022
94% 80% Lincoln's Dilemma Frederick Douglass (Voice) 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blue's Clues & You! Mo Snow (Guest Voice) 2021
81% 88% The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo Music Performer 2021
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Music Performer,
Guest
2019-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Soul of a Nation Host 2021
45% No Score Yet The Academy Awards Music Performer 2021
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Music Performer,
Guest
2016 2018 2020-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2021
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Music Performer 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Music Performer 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Greatest #AtHome Videos Guest 2020
58% No Score Yet Love in the Time of Corona James (Character),
Executive Producer
2020
82% 16% A Little Late With Lilly Singh Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2016-2017 2019
80% 96% One Dollar Abatsy (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Live From Lincoln Center Music Performer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tavis Smiley Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry Music Performer 2017
93% 90% The Good Wife Barry Pert (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2015
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Reverend Curtis Scott (Guest Star) 2013-2015
77% 68% Gotham Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
92% 78% Person of Interest Peter Collier (Guest Star) 2013-2014
68% 80% Smash Sam Strickland (Character),
Sam Stickland (Guest Star)
2012-2013
No Score Yet 63% NCIS: Los Angeles Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
50% No Score Yet Big Day Unknown (Guest Star) 2006-2007
65% No Score Yet Close to Home Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
62% No Score Yet Vanished Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2003-2006
No Score Yet 88% Gilmore Girls Quentin Walsh (Guest Star) 2006
44% No Score Yet Threshold Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Big House Unknown (Guest Star) 2004