New York Comedy Festival: Tracy Morgan

Currently starring on NBC’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning “30 Rock,” Morgan appears opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin as “Tracy Jordan,” the unpredictable star of Lemon’s (Fey) hit variety show, “TGS with Tracy Jordan.” In 2009 Morgan received his first Emmy Nomination for this role, in the Supporting Actor category; he has in four past years also been nominated for a Supporting Actor NAACP Image Award. The “30 Rock” cast has also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.”Last year was another busy one for Morgan. First up was Kevin Smith’s COP OUT. In the feature, he starred with Bruce Willis as two cops given the grim tasks of locating a stolen baseball card to pay for a wedding, rescuing a kidnapped woman, and combating gangsters whose main goals are laundering money and elevating the death count in Brooklyn. In April, Morgan starred in the comedy DEATH AT A FUNERAL for Screen Gems. The film, a remake of the 2007 British movie of the same name, also featured Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Zoe Saldana, and Danny Glover. The independent romantic comedy feature NAILED (from David O. Russell) in which Morgan also appears, alongside Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal, will be released later in 2010. Next up, Morgan tackles the drama THE SON OF NO ONE with Al Pacino and Juliette Binoche. The film is due out in 2011 and had been selected to be a part of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Morgan recently began production on his next film, PREDISPOSED, which also stars Jesse Eisenberg and Melissa Leo.