The Blind Side

…mother in the sports drama The Blind Side; she won numerous accolades for her performance, including an Academy Award for best actress. Another maternal role followed in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), a film about a boy coping with the death of his father in the September 11 attacks.…

The book was also adapted into a film, a commercial and critical success that won Sandra Bullock the Oscar for best actress. Oher went on to play football at the University of Mississippi and was drafted into the National Football League in 2009. He played in the NFL from…

…including Friday Night Lights (2004), The Blind Side (2009), Country Strong (2010), Tomorrowland (2015), and The Shack (2017). He also costarred with his wife and Sam Elliott in the TV series 1883 (2021– ), a western drama that was a prequel to the hit show Yellowstone.