Gossett was the first Black man to receive an Academy Award for his supporting role in An Officer and a Gentleman in 1983.He became a household name when he earned an Emmy in the iconic TV miniseries Roots in 1977.Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. was born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on May 27, 1936.Gossett began acting at an early age after a basketball injury redirected his energy and talents from the court to the stage.
“I knew too little to be nervous,” Gossett wrote. “In retrospect, I should have been scared to death as I walked onto that stage, but I wasn’t.” When he made it back to Hollywood to star in NBC's Companions in Nightmare, he stayed in a fancy hotel and was given a rented convertible to drive around town.
“I realized this was happening because I was Black and had been showing off with a fancy car — which, in their view, I had no right to beOn that same 1968 trip, Gossett said he was stopped a third time by police while taking a walk and told it was prohibited to walk around Beverly Hills after 9 pm.“Now I had come face-to-face with racism, and it was an ugly sight — but it was not going to destroy me,” he wrote.
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