Orlando Jones is a renaissance man. His recent performances includes: starring opposite
Laurence Fishburne as the anti-apartheid revolutionary Oliver Tambo in Madiba; being tapped
by Ethan Hawke for the Showtime series The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride’s best
selling novel. From the Duplass Brothers dark comedy Room 104, to playing the Elgin Baylor on
the highly anticipated new Los Angeles Laker series on HBO.
Jones has proven himself as a masterful storyteller with advertising awards, writing, producing
and acting credits that stretch from his iconic 7UP character to the groundbreaking sitcoms, A
Different World and Martin. Jones was the only original cast member on Mad TV to write and
perform on the series. In 2019 Neil Gaiman, Michael Green & Bryan Fuller tapped Jones to
create and embody fan favorite, Mr. Nancy the titular character in Anansi Boy’s the American
Gods sequel. Joneses consulting producing, writing and acting services on Season 2 garnered
the highest-rated launch for Starz in over two years. Jones worked closely with Robert Orci and
Alex Kurtzman to create his character Frank Irving and launch their reimagined Sleepy Hollow
franchise to global success. Jones acting, marketing, social media content and transformative
media work on Fox’s supernatural series earned him and his company many accolades
including the first Virtual Reality Emmy ever given by the Television Academy in 2015.
Dubbed the King of Fandom by MTV. Jones is the subject of dozens academic papers, with
speaking engagements at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, UCLA, Oxford,
Princeton, MIT and the Fan Studies Network symposium with the father of fan studies Henry
Jenkins. Jones even wrote the preface to the academic book Seeing Fans and helped SyFy
celebrate their 25th anniversary by legally marrying fans at the San Diego Comic Con (yes,
Jones is ordained) Orlando filmed his a sold-out Comedy Central special in South Africa; and
hosted and produced content for the digital broadcast of the 88th Academy Awards. Jones
remains an influential force within the fandom and entertainment universe.