Regina King
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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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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Known for
A Man in Full
Butterfly in the Sky
Shirley
Planes: Back to School
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Harder They Fall
Flag Day
One Night in Miami...
Watchmen
Tamron Hall
A Lifetime of Sundays
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Alec Baldwin Show
Seven Seconds
The Good Doctor
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
The Snowy Day
Insecure
This Is Us
Animal Kingdom
The Catch
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
American Crime
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Planes Fire and Rescue: Smokejumpers
Planes: Fire & Rescue
The Strain
The Leftovers
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Gabby Douglas Story
Inside the Box
Let the Church Say Amen
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Shameless
Our Family Wedding
Who Do You Think You Are?
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Southland
RuPaul's Drag Race
Living Proof
The Wendy Williams Show
This Christmas
The Big Bang Theory
Year of the Dog
The Graham Norton Show
The Ant Bully
The Boondocks
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Ray
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
A Cinderella Story
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Daddy Day Care
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Damaged Care
Leap of Faith
Truth Be Told
24
Down to Earth
The Acting Class
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Love and Action in Chicago
Where the Truth Lies
Mighty Joe Young
Enemy of the State
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
The View
Jerry Maguire
The Daily Show
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Friday
Higher Learning
New York Undercover
Living Single
Poetic Justice
Boyz n the Hood
Northern Exposure
227
Reading Rainbow
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars