Donald McKinley Glover was born at the Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly in which he plays an athlete in a rather odd study group, opposite Chevy Chase and Joel McHale. Glover auditioned to play President Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008, though he didn't get the role. His stand-up special aired on Comedy Central in March 2010.
Auditioned to play Barack Obama on "Saturday Night Live" but lost to Fred Armisen.
Raps under the stage name Childish Gambino.
In 2010, while the producers of the 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man were casting their Peter Parker, a grassroots Internet campaign sprang up advocating for casting Donald Glover in the role. Andrew Garfield was eventually cast instead, but in 2011, when the "Ultimate" comics version of Peter Parker died, Parker was replaced as Ultimate Spider-Man by a half-black, half-Latino teen named Miles Morales, whose appearance and ethnicity were heavily influenced by Glovers (according to numerous interviews with "Ultimate" comics writer Brian Michael Bendis).
For his role on Community , named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art," in cover story of The New York Times Magazine (9/11/11).
In her 2011 book "Bossypants," Tina Fey said that during the early years of the show, Donald Glover was 30 Rocks only black writer. She also said that he was so young that when he started on the writing staff, he was still living in a New York University dorm and working there as a Resident Adviser. Since he came from a large family in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Fey said that Glover was especially good at writing for the character of Kenneth, who was also supposed to be from Stone Mountain.
Grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He was raised a Jehovahs Witness.
Became a father for the first time when his girlfriend gave birth to the couples first child, a son.
(May 2017) Merited a place in TIME magazines "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage written by Tina Fey.
Brother of Stephen Glover.
Second African-American performer to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He followed Robert Guillaume , who won in this category in 1985, in 2017.
L. A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared,up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it,and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional,alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!,When you think of the former high school football star, you think,6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character.
I try to be me to the utmost.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to,figure out what was OK for me to do.
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must,always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a,Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube,stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and,it was really cool.
Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there,they are out there for good.
I don’t want to sit there and be like, ‘Oh, I don’t care what the audience thinks. ’ It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.
I just keep losing. I mean, some people just. . . are supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who. . . are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners?,The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
