Regina King
Birth : 1971-01-15, Los Angeles, California, USA
History
Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971) is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of several awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four acting Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for an African-American performer. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
King first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins in the television series 227 from 1985 to 1990. Notable roles followed in the films Friday (1995) and Jerry Maguire (1996), and the crime television series Southland (2009–2013). From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the ABC anthology series American Crime, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and in 2018, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds, for which she won her third Emmy Award. Her role as a troubled mother in the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. King won her fourth Emmy Award for starring in the 2019 superhero television series Watchmen.
King has also played supporting roles in the films Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003), Ray (2004), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). Her other television roles include the drama series The Leftovers from 2015 to 2017 and the sitcom The Big Bang Theory from 2013 to 2019.
King has directed episodes for several television shows, including Scandal in 2015 and 2016 and This Is Us in 2017. She has also directed the music video for the 2010 song "Finding My Way Back" by Jaheim. Her feature film directorial debut came with the drama One Night in Miami... (2020), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director at the 78th Golden Globe Awards. She became the second black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Producer
Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Self
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Executive Producer
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Director
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Narrator
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Self
Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.
Mom
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Dynamite (voice)
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Dynamite (voice)
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Natalie Hawkins
The true story of Gabby Douglas who becomes the first African American to be named Individual All-Around Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games.
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Director
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Self
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Angela
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Ellie Jackson
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Lisa Whitfield Moore
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Herself
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Layla
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Kreela (voice)
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Sam Fuller
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Margie Hendricks
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Self
A meld of legendary performers and contemporary artists of today who have been influenced by Ray's music perform in this concert extravaganza.
Rhonda
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Grace Rossiter
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Kim Hinton
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Cheryl Griffith
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Rayne
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Sontee Jenkins
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Self
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Allie
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Lois Newton
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Lillian Rose-Martin
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Cecily Banks
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Carla Dean
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Vanessa
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Marcee Tidwell
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Mia
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Dana Jones
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Monet
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Iesha
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Shalika
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Dynamite
Dusty the cropdusting plane loses his aerial license. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to return to the skies.
Director
In 1920s Harlem, a fractured family of once-great monster hunters must face an unimaginable evil that has descended upon New York City.
Self
It's about the repairing of a school in Sierra Leone, helped by Regina King and her friend Tiffany Persons.
Director
It's about the repairing of a school in Sierra Leone, helped by Regina King and her friend Tiffany Persons.
