Tracy Jamel Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American actor and
comedian. He is best known for being a cast member of the television
show Saturday Night Live (1996â€"2003) and his role in the television
series 30 Rock (2006â€"2013), each of which earned him a Primetime
Emmy Award nomination. He has also been nominated for ten NAACP Image
Awards.On film, he has starred in The Longest Yard (2005), Cop Out
(2010), The Son of No One (2011), Why Stop Now (2012), What Men Want
(2019), in addition to voicing roles in G-Force (2009), Rio (2011),
The Boxtrolls (2014), Rio 2 (2014), The Star (2017) and Scoob!
(2020).Morgan was born in the Bronx and raised in Tompkins Houses in
Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He is the second of five children of a
homemaker, Alicia (née Warden), and Jimmy Morgan, a musician who
returned from military duty in the Vietnam War as a recovering heroin
addict, causing him to leave the family when Morgan was six years old.
comedian. He is best known for being a cast member of the television
show Saturday Night Live (1996â€"2003) and his role in the television
series 30 Rock (2006â€"2013), each of which earned him a Primetime
Emmy Award nomination. He has also been nominated for ten NAACP Image
Awards.On film, he has starred in The Longest Yard (2005), Cop Out
(2010), The Son of No One (2011), Why Stop Now (2012), What Men Want
(2019), in addition to voicing roles in G-Force (2009), Rio (2011),
The Boxtrolls (2014), Rio 2 (2014), The Star (2017) and Scoob!
(2020).Morgan was born in the Bronx and raised in Tompkins Houses in
Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He is the second of five children of a
homemaker, Alicia (née Warden), and Jimmy Morgan, a musician who
returned from military duty in the Vietnam War as a recovering heroin
addict, causing him to leave the family when Morgan was six years old.
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