Regina King

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Regina King (2018)

Regina King (* 15. January 1971 as Regina King Rene in Los Angeles ) is an American actress . She is a three-time Emmy Award winner . For her portrayal of Sharon Rivers in Barry Jenkins ' film drama If Beale Street Could Talk was 2,019 each in the category Best Supporting Actress with the Oscar and the Golden Globe Award excellent.

Life

King grew up in Los Angeles as the daughter of a teacher and an electrician who divorced in 1979. Her younger sister is the actress Reina King . Regina King took acting lessons from acting teacher Betty A. Bridges , mother of actor Todd Bridges , who got King's first job on television. King attended Westchester High School and left in 1988.

On April 23, 1997 she married Ian Alexander Sr., with whom she has one child. They divorced in 2007.

She was politically committed to the then US presidential candidate and 44th US President Barack Obama .

Career

In 1985, at the age of 14, Regina King starred in the television series 227 . In this sitcom, she embodied the character Brenda Jenkins in 106 episodes and received two nominations for the Young Artist Awards (1985 and 1986). Marla Gibbs ( Mary Jenkins ) and Hal Williams ( Lester Jenkins ) played their parents. After this engagement was a supporting role in Boyz n the Hood - Boys in the quarter as Shalika , being next to Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding Jr. is seen. In the film drama Poetic Justice (1993) she played Iesha , the friend of the lead role Justice , who was in turn played by Janet Jackson and made her acting debut at the same time. In 1995 she was seen in Higher Learning as Monet in a supporting role, the leading roles were cast by Omar Epps , Michael Rapaport and Kristy Swanson . In the same year, King starred in the comedy Friday as Dana , the sister of the character from Ice Cube , who had appeared with her in Higher Learning , in front of the camera. The following year, Regina King played the wife of football player Rod Tidwell (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) in Jerry Maguire, Game of Life , which won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance . Tom Cruise played the leading role in the film and Renée Zellweger was seen in another supporting role. In the same year she got a bigger role in Mister Bombastic at the side of Martin Lawrence .

In 1998, King received a supporting role as Vanessa in Stella's Groove: Men Are Half the Battle , starring Angela Bassett as Stella Grove , Taye Diggs as Winston Shakespeare and Whoopi Goldberg as Delilah Abraham . In the fantasy adventure film, a remake of panic to King Kong in 1949, Mighty Joe Young , she was seen as Cecily alongside Bill Paxton and Charlize Theron .

She became famous for the role of Carla Dean in the film The Public Enemy No. 1 , which she played alongside Will Smith . For this performance she was nominated for the NAACP Image Award in 1999. In the American television film When the Truth Lies , she was in a leading role in front of the camera.

In the television film Women Love Women (2000), which was produced by HBO , King appeared in front of the camera as a supporting actress in the 2000 segment. The film tells the story of three female couples in different decades. Vanessa Redgrave , Sharon Stone and Chloë Sevigny can be seen in the leading roles . It is the continuation of the film House of Silent Screams , which tells the topic of abortion . Here were Demi Moore and Cher seen in the lead roles.

In 2001 King played the character Sontee Jenkins in Once Heaven and Back (by Chris and Paul Weitz ), who is coveted by Chris Rock's character and who also get together at the end of the film. For this performance she was nominated for Best Actress at the BET Awards (won Sanaa Lathan ) and at the NAACP Image Awards (won Halle Berry ). In Naturally Blonde 2 (2003), King played the lawyer Grace at Reese Witherspoon's side as Elle Woods . That same year she got a job in the comedy film The Kindergarten Daddy , where she was seen alongside Eddie Murphy and Steve Zahn .

In the drama Ray , Regina King played Margie Hendrix and won the Image Award and the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 . The lead role Ray Charles was cast by Jamie Foxx , who won an Oscar for Best Actor and a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe in the same category for his performance at the 2005 Academy Awards .

In 2005, King played the bad-tempered and aggressive FBI agent Sam Fuller in Miss Undercover 2 , who no one wants to have as a partner, but is tasked with protecting Gracie Hart ( Sandra Bullock ). Together, the two received a Teen Choice Awards nomination for a dance scene. King also received a BET Awards nomination for her performance .

From 2005 to 2010 King gave the characters Riley Freeman and Huey Freeman her voice in 46 episodes of the television series The Boondocks . For the animated film Lucas, der Ameisenschreck (2006) she gave the ant Kreela her voice. In 2007, Regina King embodied in nine episodes of the sixth season of the US action series 24 the character of Sandra Palmer . She stood next to Kiefer Sutherland ( Jack Bauer ) and DB Woodside ( Wayne Palmer ) in front of the camera. In the same year she was in the drama Year of the Dog and the comedy This Christmas in front of the camera.

From 2009 to 2013, Regina King was part of the main cast of the drama series Southland and impersonated Detective Lydia Adams in 42 episodes . She was nominated for a BET Award several times for her role and received a NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in a Series - Drama in 2011 and 2012 .

Since 2013, King has appeared in a recurring guest role as Janine Davis in the comedy series The Big Bang Theory . This was followed by other guest appearances in Shameless , The Straing and The Leftovers . From 2015 to 2017 she was part of the main cast of the successful crime series American Crime for three seasons . For the first and second seasons, King received a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a miniseries or a TV movie .

Her involvement in the television series Seven Seconds earned her another Emmy nomination in 2018, before receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2019 for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk . She also received a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award for the film . Since 2019 she can be seen in a leading role in the HBO series Watchmen .

Her directorial debut, One Night in Miami, is set to premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020 .

Filmography (selection)

Regina King (2010)

Awards and nominations

Oscar

Emmy

  • 2015 : Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for American Crime
  • 2016 : Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for American Crime
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a TV Movie for American Crime
  • 2018: Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for Seven Seconds

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Television Award

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Web links

Commons : Regina King  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME King, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Regina Rene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , USA