Jordan Peele
Actor-writer Jordan Peele gleefully skewered issues of race and popular culture as a solo performer and in tandem with his frequent partner Keegan-Michael Key on "MADtv" (Fox 1995-2009) and "Key & Peele" (Comedy Central 2012-15). A veteran of the Second City improvisational group, Peele broke into television with "MADtv," which earned him widespread praise for celebrity impersonations and unhinged recurring characters. After netting a 2008 Emmy nomination for writing the comic music video "Sad Fitty Cent," Peele left "MAD" to work on other series before reteaming with Key for their own show. "Key & Peele" was both a critical and audience favorite thanks to the stars' take on racially tinged subjects, including a supremely formal President Barack Obama (played by Peele). The popularity of the series led to additional high-profile opportunities for the stars and underscored both Key and Peele's ascent to the higher echelons of the comedy business. That success led to the duo's first big-screen effort, the action comedy "Keanu" (2016), in which the pair took on a violent street gang over a stolen kitten. In a somewhat unexpected shift of direction, Peele's first high-profile solo gig was the horror film "Get Out" (2017), which he wrote and directed; a racially-charged satirical film in the tradition of "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Stepford Wives" (1975), "Get Out" was a major critical and commercial success that poised Peele for a career apart from his longtime friend and partner.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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89% |
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Monkey Man | Producer | $25.0M | 2024 |
82% | No Score Yet | Abruptio | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2023 |
80% |
|
Wendell & Wild |
Wild (Voice), Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2022 |
72% |
|
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. | Executive Producer | $2.4M | 2022 |
83% |
|
Nope |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$123.2M | 2022 |
84% |
|
Candyman |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$61.2M | 2021 |
97% |
|
Toy Story 4 | Bunny (Voice) | $434.0M | 2019 |
100% |
|
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
93% |
|
Us |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$175.0M | 2019 |
96% |
|
BlacKkKlansman | Producer | $48.6M | 2018 |
87% |
|
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie | Melvin (Voice) | $73.9M | 2017 |
98% |
|
Get Out |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$176.0M | 2017 |
65% |
|
Storks | Beta Wolf (Voice) | $72.7M | 2016 |
78% |
|
Keanu |
Rell Williams/ Screenwriter, Producer |
$20.6M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sidekick | Sidecar Willy (Character) | - | 2013 |
59% |
|
Wanderlust | Rodney (Character) | $17.3M | 2012 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scare Tactics | Host | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2017 2019 2024 |
94% | 72% | Big Mouth | Ghost of Duke Ellington (Voice) | 2017-2023 |
68% | 64% | Hunters | Executive Producer | 2020 2023 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2016-2019 2022-2023 |
No Score Yet | 78% | The Last O.G. | Executive Producer | 2018-2021 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Pixar Popcorn | Bunny (Voice) | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finding Your Roots | Guest | 2021 |
88% | 64% | Lovecraft Country |
Executive Producer, Creator |
2020 |
67% | 44% | The Twilight Zone |
Executive Producer, Host, Writer |
2019-2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desus & Mero | Guest | 2019 |
82% | 82% | Lorena | Executive Producer | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 86% | SuperMansion | Bugula (Guest Voice) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oprah at the Apollo | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2014 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad! | Street Thug (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2012-2014 2016 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Bob's Burgers | Don (Guest Voice) | 2014-2016 |
64% | 73% | The Muppets | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Life in Pieces | Chad (Guest Star) | 2015 |
97% | 91% | Key & Peele |
Various Characters (Character), Writer, Creator, Producer, Executive Producer |
2012-2015 |
90% | 83% | Rick and Morty | Second Fourth-Dimensional Being (Guest Voice) | 2015 |
100% | 78% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2014 |
93% | 85% | Fargo | FBI Agent Budge (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside Comedy | Unknown (Character) | 2014 |
85% | 90% | Modern Family | Derrick (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 91% | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Guest | 2013 |
86% | 83% | The Mindy Project | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MADtv | Unknown (Character) | 2003-2008 |