Samuel L. Jackson — The former campus militant and civil rights radical at Morehouse College (he was one of the ushers at Martin Luther King’s funeral as a teenager in 1968), Jackson became a crack addict and kicked the habit to go onto become the highest grossing actor in Hollywood history, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. Moreover, Jackson channeled his former drug-addicted self into playing the role that made him a breakout star: as Wesley Snipes’ pathetic brother in the film Jungle Fever.
