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2018–present: Runnin' from My Roots [ edit ] Arthur played country music star Faith Winters in the film Runnin' from My Roots that was released on December 11, 2018.
Muldoon was the first actor to play the role of Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives, from 1992 to 1995 and again from September 2011 to July 2012.Prior to that, he landed a role on the popular teen television series Saved by the Bell in 1991.
O'Connell is the only son of Mark O'Connell, a former player for the Cincinnati Bengals and Kathryn Deeble O'Connell. He has three sisters, Amy, Abby and Anna. [1] [2] He graduated from Cathedral High School in 2004 where he played football, basketball and baseball.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS. Ten seasons have been broadcast. Its tenth season premiered on January 2, 2024.
According to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia.He was raised in a Muslim family. [4] [5] In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for himself, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive.
Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.
He also appeared in a number of television shows and films, including a stint on EastEnders and the lead in the television film My Murder. [8] He was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2013. [9] In 2016, Kirby starred as Kunta Kinte in the American miniseries Roots, a remake of the 1977 miniseries of the same name.
The film is set in the Kona Coffee Belt of Hawaii during the 1920s. Japanese immigrant laborers and the white upperclass live in a rigidly classist society. Jo, an orphan of mixed-race lineage, finds himself ostracized by both groups until Doc, a white doctor from the mainland, is hired as a physician for workers on the plantation owned by Mr. Danielson.