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Regina King

Regina King

Birthday: 1971-01-15 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Regina King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
The Harder They Fall

as    Trudy Smith

2019
Watchmen

as    Angela Abar / Sister Night

2019
A Lifetime of Sundays

as    Narrator

2018
Seven Seconds

as    Latrice Butler

2018
If Beale Street Could Talk

as    Sharon Rivers

2014
The Leftovers

as    Erika Murphy

2014
The Gabby Douglas Story

as    Natalie Hawkins

2013
Inside the Box

as    Stephanie Miles

2010
Our Family Wedding

as    Angela

2009
Southland

as    Detective Lydia Adams

2007
Year of the Dog

as    Layla

2007
This Christmas

as    Lisa Whitfield Moore

2006
The Ant Bully

as    Kreela (voice)

2005
The Boondocks

as    Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)

2005
2004
Ray

as    Margie Hendricks

2004
A Cinderella Story

as    Rhonda

2003
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

as    Grace Rossiter

2003
Daddy Day Care

as    Kim Hinton

2001
Down to Earth

as    Sontee Jenkins

1999
Where the Truth Lies

as    Lillian Rose-Martin

1998
Enemy of the State

as    Carla Dean

1998
Mighty Joe Young

as    Cecily Banks

1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back

as    Vanessa

1996
Jerry Maguire

as    Marcee Tidwell