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Sumnima Kandangwa

Freelance Editorial Assistant for Style by SCMP


Michael B. Jordan took home his first Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards. Winning best actor for his dual role as twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the 39-year-old beat out strong contenders like Timothée Chalamet, Ethan Hawke, Wagner Moura and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Jordan is the sixth Black male actor to win in the best actor category and paid homage to them in his acceptance speech. “I stand here because of the people that came before me: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith,” he said. Berry won best actress in 2002.
He also thanked his mother Donna and his father Michael A. Jordan, who he said flew in from Ghana to attend the Oscars.

Both Jordan’s parents and his two siblings, Khalid and Jamila, joined the actor on the red carpet ahead of the event. In fact, his mother was the first person Jordan called after learning that he had been nominated for the award, as per People.
Here’s everything to know about Donna and Michael A. Jordan, the couple that raised Michael B. Jordan.
They don’t have a Hollywood background

Despite their son being one of the most recognised names in Hollywood, Donna and Michael A. Jordan had humble beginnings. Michael Sr worked as a supervisor at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York, and later catered lunches at Chad in New Jersey, a private tuition-based school founded by the Black Youth Organization in the 1960s, per Vanity Fair. Donna was a social worker at the same school, and Michael Jr and his siblings attended junior high there.
Jordan found acting through his mother

It was during a doctor’s visit that a receptionist suggested that Donna get the then 11-year-old Michael B. into modelling. “I was just at the time thinking about college tuition and that sort of thing,” Donna told Vanity Fair. “Little did I know that it was going to be job, after job, after job, after job.”
Jordan has repeatedly credited his parents for their support throughout his career. When he was crowned People’s sexiest man alive in 2020, the Creed actor opened up about the sacrifices his parents made for him and his siblings. “I’m just grateful. Honestly it’s like they all have had such an impact on me and who I am and how I approach each day,” he said. “Without that, a lot of things about me just wouldn’t be the same. So it all comes back to that foundation. I’m really thankful for that.”
The actor regularly brings his mother as his date to Hollywood events, including the Critics Choice Awards this January.
He bought his parents a house

In 2015, Jordan gifted his parents a US$1.7 million home in Sherman Oaks, California. In a 2018 interview with The Times, Jordan opened up about how it had always been his dream to buy his parents a house.
The actor also lived in the house with his parents for a time, and has been candid about having a “roommate relationship” with his family. “You get home-cooked meals, but then you also have random trips to the kitchen in the middle of the night, and just the random run-ins that just might be a little uncomfortable from time to time,” he said during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in February 2018. “Sometimes shirtless, a little naked.”
His mother suffers from lupus

Jordan’s mother Donna suffers from lupus, the same autoimmune disease that Selena Gomez revealed she was diagnosed with in 2015. The disease attacks healthy tissue, causing inflammation and joint pain. Serving as a board member for Lupus LA, Donna hosts events such as live painting sessions for others with lupus and their family members.


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Michael B. Jordan is now an Oscar winner – but what do we know about his parents, for whom he bought a home in Sherman Oaks, California, in 2015?