A commanding lead of film, stage, and television, Danny Glover is best known to general audiences as the older, more cautious partner of the volatile Mel Gibson in the popular "Lethal Weapon" movies, even though he spent most of the 1990s producing and starring in critically acclaimed films that explored different historical issues black people have faced in the United States and in Africa.

Glover first won acclaim for his work on the New York stage in two Athol Fugard plays, a 1980 Off-Broadway revival of "The Blood Knot" and the Broadway premiere of "'Master Harold' ... and the boys" (1982).