Jaqueline Fleming

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Jaqueline Cherie Fleming (born September 10, 1977 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) is an American actress who is mostly used in film productions, but also as a guest actor in television series. She is the cousin of the Football Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow and the grandcousin of his son, the now also active American football player Kellen Winslow II . In addition to her acting activities, Fleming also runs her own drama school based in Metairie and Lafayette in the US state of Louisiana .

Life

Jaqueline Fleming was born in 1977 in the Danish capital Copenhagen as the daughter of an American military man and a Danish woman of German descent, but grew up in New York, more than 6,000 km away, in the United States . After her birth mother died when she was just nine months old, she grew up with her father, who, in addition to New York, settled with her in other US cities, including Chicago , and raised his daughter there. Since her father always had different partners during her childhood and youth, Jaqueline Fleming had five different mother sets and at least 20 different half-siblings over the years. According to her own statements, this encouraged her to work on a later career as an actress. At the age of eight she got her first acting roles, initially appearing mostly in local theaters. At 16, Fleming finally took on her first professional theatrical role when she was cast in Ntozake Shange 's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf . After graduating from high school in New York, Fleming moved to St. Louis, where she received a full academic scholarship from Webster University . From there, she studied film and television and eventually graduated from Columbia College Chicago . During her time in Chicago, the ambitious young actress also appeared in dozens of different regional and national commercials, appeared in independent films, in the print media, and worked in voice-overs . In addition, in 1996 she received a Joseph Jefferson Award , or Jeff Award for short , for her special achievements as an actress and was thus able to receive the highest award in the city's theater society.

After numerous theater and smaller television appearances, Fleming got her first notable collaboration in a feature film in 1995 when she slipped into the role of Lisa in George Tillman junior's debut film Scenes for the Soul . After she worked on other films such as The Other Mother (1995; among others together with Halle Berry ) Girlfriends (1996) or Love Jones (1997; among others with Nia Long and Larenz Tate ) and mostly in not insignificant supporting roles was seen, she took the advice of aspiring actress Halle Berry and tried to gain a foothold in Hollywood. There Fleming initially got guest roles in various television series, and only over the years she was used in various feature films, although she was also still booked for commercials on the side. Until the end of the 1990s, they appeared in one episode each of The Good News (1997), Sparks & Sparks (1997), Mister Funky - The Steve Harvey Show (1998), A Terrible Nice House (1998), Damon (1998) , The Hotelboy (1998) and The Wayans Bros. (1999), it was used in only one feature film during this period. She played the supporting role of Val in Park Day . After she only got a few engagements in television series at the beginning of the new millennium, she was working increasingly on her film breakthrough. While she participated in two episodes of For Your Love and The Andy Dick Show in 2000 and 2001 , she was increasingly seen in larger film productions from 2000 onwards.

After a role in the film Obstacles , which was also published in German-speaking countries under the title City of Crime - Obstacles , Fleming achieved further engagements in 2001 in the feature film All or Nothing and in the short film Our Journey . In 2003 she cast Tara , Malibooty! and Vegas Vampires each have a small and rather insignificant supporting role. In 2004 she was used again in three different films ( Mr. 3000 , Hair Show and The Brooke Ellison Story ), but each time she only had a guest role or was given a cameo. 2007 followed appearances in the films Tournament of Dreams , All About Us and Redrum was used, whereby she was mostly only seen in minor supporting roles. After just one film in 2009, similar to A Crazy Friday , Sister Switch , in which she played the female lead alongside Kadeem Hardison , Jaqueline Fleming was seen in several major films in 2010, which premiered this year . She was seen in Sickle , Enemies Among Us , The Revenge of the Bridesmaids , RED - Older, Harder, Better and also in two episodes of the television series Treme , where she was seen in the role of Angela Nelson . In 2011 she was seen in the supporting role of Angela Lucetti in The Ledge and in a small role as a saleswoman in No Means Against Love . Further films such as The Door , Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day , Contraband or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter are planned for 2011 and 2012 respectively. In the last-mentioned film, she can be seen in the role of Harriet Tubman , the most famous escape helper on the Underground Railroad .

In January 2009, Fleming opened an acting school in New Orleans , which she mostly supervises herself, and among other things promoted and trained the young talent Taylor Faye Ruffin , who made her breakthrough with Fleming's help. Over the years, their acting studio expanded to the towns of Metairie and Lafayette in the same state. In addition to these activities, she is also involved in voluntary and charitable work and also tries to be an entrepreneur or is anxious to pave the way into show business especially for the people in her hometown and to help them achieve success. Other young actors she helped further include Aaliyah Paul , Ra'jel Nelson , Michaela Smith , Gralen Bryant Banks and John Calvin McCann . She also helped numerous acting students to roles in Louisiana and Atlanta . Since 2008, Jaqueline Fleming has had her main residence in New Orleans; her sister is also active in the film and television sector.

Filmography (selection)

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

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personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Jaqueline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming, Jaqueline Cherie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark