User:JamesLucas/sandbox/Jacob Ming-Trent

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| birth_place = Boston

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 2007–present

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Jacob Ming-Trent is an American stage and film actor. He is a frequent performer in productions of the Public Theater, both at their Astor Library home and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Falstaff in the 2021 stage performance Merry Wives{{Cite episode | title = Merry Wives | url = https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/falstaffs-plan-and-pistols-revenge-c35tq9/13724/ | access-date = 16 May 2022 | series = Great Performances | series-link = Great Performances | network = PBS | date = 20 May 2022 | season = 49 | series-no = | number = 28 | minutes = | time = | transcript = | transcript-url = | quote = | language = }} and as Panda in the 2019 limited series Watchmen, and he was one of many Broadway stars with cameo appearances in the series Only Murders in the Building.{{cite web |last1=Levitt |first1=Hayley |title=How Many More Broadway Faces Did You Spot in Only Murders in the Building? |url=https://playbill.com/article/how-many-more-broadway-faces-did-you-spot-in-only-murders-in-the-building |website=Playbill |access-date=3 June 2022 |date=22 October 2021}}

In 2015, he won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play{{cite web |title=Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) |url=http://www.lortel.org/Archives/Production/5914 |website=Lortel Archives |access-date=14 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116181411/http://www.lortel.org/Archives/Production/5914 |archive-date=16 January 2017 |url-status=dead }} and is was a 2022 nominee for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.{{cite web |last1=Russo |first1=Gillian |title=2022 Drama Desk Award nominations announced |url=https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news-features/2022-drama-desk-award-nominations-announced |website=New York Theater Guide |access-date=3 June 2022 |date=16 May 2022}}

Ming-Trent was born in Boston{{cite web |last1=Hanson-Firestone |first1=Dana |title=10 Things You didn’t Know About Jacob Ming-Trent |url=https://tvovermind.com/jacob-ming-trent/ |website=TV Over Mind |access-date=16 May 2022}} or Pittsburgh