JD Jackson (actor)

JD Jackson is an American audiobook narrator, actor, and theater professor. Jackson has won 26 Earphone Awards and 1 Audie Award. In 2020, AudioFile named him a Golden Voice Narrator[1][2][3] and two years later Booklist named him a Voice of Choice Narrator.[4]

Biography

Jackson received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Speech Communications from Dillard University in 1997.[2][4] In 2000, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Theater Performance from Temple University.[2][4]

Awards and honors

Awards

Year Title Award Result Ref.
2003 America (2002) by E.R. Frank Earphone Award Winner [5]
Locomotion (2003) by Jacqueline Woodson Earphone Award Winner [6]
2009 Just Another Hero (2009) by Sharon M. Draper Earphone Award Winner [7]
2010 Cemetery Road (2009) by Gar Anthony Haywood Earphone Award Winner [8]
2011 Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Earphone Award Winner [9]
2012 Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Odyssey Award Honor [10][11]
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (1993) by Walter Dean Myers Earphone Award Winner [12]
What It Was (2012) by George Pelecanos Earphone Award Winner [13]
2014 Citizens Creek (2014) by Lalita Tademy Earphone Award Winner [14]
Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Earphone Award Winner [15]
2015 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad  (2015) by Eric Foner Earphone Award Winner [16]
Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top 10 [17][18][19]
Audie Award for Distinguished Achievement in Production Finalist [20]
2016 Citizens Creek (2014) by Lalita Tademy Audie Award for Fiction Finalist [21]
2017 Bluebird, Bluebird (2017) by Attica Locke Earphone Award Winner [22]
Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 (2017) by Leigh Montville Earphone Award Winner [23]
2018 The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson by Nancy Peacock Audie Award for Fiction Finalist [24]
2019 Look Both Ways (2019) by Jason Reynolds   Earphone Award Winner [25]
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) by Martin Luther King Jr. Audie Award for Nonfiction Finalist [26]
2020 Beowulf: A New Translation (2020) by Maria Dahvana Headley Earphone Award Winner [27]
A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (2019) by Lonnie G. Bunch III Earphone Award Winner [28]
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Earphone Award Winner [29]
The Nickel Boys (2019) by Colson Whitehead Audie Award for Best Male Narrator Finalist [30]
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (2020) by William Still and edited by Quincy T. Mills, with introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates Earphone Award Winner [31]
2021 The Anatomy of Desire (2021) by L. R. Dorn Earphone Award Winner [32]
Black Cop's Kid: An Essay (2021) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Earphone Award Winner [33]
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda (2021), edited by Jesse J. Holland Earphone Award Winner [34]
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Earphone Award Winner [35]
Hell of a Book (2021) by Jason Mott Earphone Award Winner [36]
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Audie Award for History or Biography Winner [37]
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (2020) by Hanif Abdurraqib Earphone Award Winner [38]
When Ghosts Come Home (2021) by Wiley Cash Earphone Award Winner [39]
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top 10 [40]
Odyssey Award Honor [41]
2022 The Anatomy of Desire (2021) by L. R. Dorn Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist [42]
The Best American Short Stories 2021, edited by Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist [42]
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist [42]
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories (2022) by Ladee Hubbard Earphone Award Winner [43]
Listen Mama by M.S.P. Williams Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir Finalist [42]
The Weight of Blood (2022) by Tiffany D. Jackson Earphone Award Winner [44]

Honors

In 2020, AudioFile inducted Jackson into their Golden Voice Hall of Fame.[1][2][3][45]

He also narrated two Pulitzer Prize-winning audiobooks, The Tradition by Jericho Brown and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, as well as Carnegie Medal winner, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib.[4]

Year Title Honor Ref.
2005 Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [46]
2011 Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper AudioFile Best of Young Adult [1]
2012 Cemetery Road (2009) by Gar Anthony Haywood AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense [1]
Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [47]
Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Notable Children's Recordings [48][49]
What It Was (2012) by George Pelecanos AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense [1]
2013 Crow by Barbara Wright AudioFile Best of Children [1]
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (1993) by Walter Dean Myers AudioFile Best of Young Adult [1]
2014 Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles America's First Black Paratroopers  by Tanya Lee Stone Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [50]
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles America's First Black Paratroopers  by Tanya Lee Stone Notable Children's Recordings [51]
Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth [52]
Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Booklist Editor's Top of the List [53]
2015 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad  (2015) by Eric Foner AudioFile Best of History [1]
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War by Tanya Lee Stone, Marcus Sedgwick, David Almond, Timothée de Fombelle, A.L. Kennedy, Ursula Dubosarsky, Michael Morpurgo, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Sheena Wilkinson, and Adèle Geras School Library Journal's Top 10 Audiobooks of the Year [54]
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Lewis Notable Children's Videos [55][56]
The Madman of Piney Woods Notable Children's Recordings [57][58]
Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Notable Children's Recordings [59]
2017 Bluebird, Bluebird (2017) by Attica Locke AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense [1]
Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 (2017) by Leigh Montville AudioFile Best of Biography & History [1]
2019 Heaven, My Home   AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense [1]
Look Both Ways (2019) by Jason Reynolds   AudioFile Best of Children & Family Listening [1]
2020 A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (2019) by Lonnie G. Bunch III AudioFile Best of Nonfiction & Culture [1]
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed Booklist Editors' Choice: Youth Audio [60]
2021 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) by Nikole Hannah-Jones Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Audio [61]
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain AudioFile Best of History & Biography [1][62]
His Truth is Marching On   AudioFile Best of History & Biography [1][3]
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (2019) by Jason Reynolds Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [63]
The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript,edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel Greenberg Listen List [64]
When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed Notable Children's Recordings [65]

Filmography

Year Title Role Note
1997 The Big Easy Jasper Goodwin 1 episode: End of the World
2001 Diary of a City Priest Kurt
2002 As If Chris 2 episodes:
  • Episode 1.2
  • Episode 1.3
Third Watch Latrell Griffith 2 episodes:
  • Lights Up
  • Blackout
2003 Hack Skeeter D 1 episode: Collateral Damage
Queens Supreme ADA Barney Broomfield 1 episode: Let's Make a Deal
Whoopi Security Guard #2 1 episode: Sticky Fingers
2005 Law & Order Lenny Thorne 1 episode: Locomotion
2006 Sherrybaby Job Trainer Uncredited
Lucky Number Slevin Mugger
2008 Cold Play Detective Sparks
ER Chuck Holmes 1 episode: Parental Guidance
2010 House Ronald Westbrook 1 episode: 5 to 9
2012 Acts the 3-Man Show Peter
2019 Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box Narrator
2022 Keeping the City Going

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