Richard T. Jones
Biography
Richard T. Jones is an American actor with screen credits reaching back to the early 1990s. Born in Kobe, Japan, he grew up in Carson, California, and made his first television appearance in a 1993 episode of California Dreams, then played Ike Turner Jr. that same year in What's Love Got to Do with It. On the CBS legal drama Judging Amy he starred as Bruce Calvin van Exel from 1999 to 2005, and he later appeared in Ally McBeal, Girlfriends, Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii Five-0, Narcos and Criminal Minds. His film work includes The Wood (1999), the Disney movie Full Court Miracle (2003), the Tyler Perry dramas Why Did I Get Married? (2007) and Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and Captain Russell Hampton in Godzilla (2014). He also played Detective Tommy Cavanaugh on Wisdom of the Crowd from 2017 to 2018 and has portrayed Lieutenant Wade Grey on the ABC police drama The Rookie since 2018.
54years old
Turns 55 on January 16in 67 days
- Born Kobe
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Richard Timothy Jones and Richard Jones
Movie Career
- Films
- 29
- Career span
- 32 years1994 to 2026
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First role
Richard T. Jones appeared as Ike Turner Jr. in What's Love Got to Do with It, and he also landed his first television part that same year, in a 1993 episode of California Dreams.
Richard T. Jones movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Tyler Perry directed three of these films. Six actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Richard T. Jones's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.7 billion
21 of the 29 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 29 films: 21 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 4 figure not found.
- 21Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 4Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 84% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$525M30.7% of the total
- 2$260M15.2% of the total
- 3$220M12.9% of the total
- 4$152M8.9% of the total
- 5$98M5.7% of the total
- 6$61M3.6% of the total
- 7$61M3.5% of the total
- 8$56M3.3% of the total
$276 millionfrom the other 13 films with a worldwide figure, 16% of the total
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