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Regina King
Los Angeles, California, USA
Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and f…
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Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. King first gained attention for starring in the television sitcom 227 (1985–1990). Her subsequent roles included the film Friday (1995), the animated series The Boondocks (2005–2014), and the crime television series Southland (2009–2013). She received four Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the ABC anthology series American Crime (2015–2017), the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds, and the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019). Her other television roles include the drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017) and the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2013–2019). She has also played supporting roles in the drama films Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), and Ray (2004), as well as in the comedies Down to Earth (2001), Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003), A Cinderella Story (2004), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). She earned critical acclaim, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). She then starred in the western The Harder They Fall (2021) and played the title role in the biopic Shirley (2024). 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. King's feature film directorial debut came with the drama One Night in Miami... (2020), which earned her a nomination for the 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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2027
Children of Blood and Bone
Movie Queen Nehanda
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2025
Caught Stealing
Movie Detective Roman
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2025
Escape Room
Movie
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2025
FOREVER
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
A Man in Full
TV show Director
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2024
Butterfly in the Sky
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Shirley
Movie Shirley Chisholm
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2022
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
TV show Self
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2022
JANET JACKSON.
TV show Self
- 2021
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2021
The Harder They Fall
Movie Trudy Smith
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2021
Flag Day
Movie U.S. Marshal Blake
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2021
Directors on Directors
TV show Self
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2020
One Night in Miami...
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
TV show Self
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2019
Watchmen
TV show Angela Abar / Sister Night
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
A Lifetime of Sundays
Movie Narrator
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie Sharon Rivers
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2018
The Alec Baldwin Show
TV show Self
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2018
Seven Seconds
TV show Latrice Butler
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2017
The Good Doctor
TV show Director
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2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Movie Self
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2016
The Snowy Day
Movie Mom (voice)
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2016
Insecure
TV show Director
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2016
This Is Us
TV show Director
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2016
Animal Kingdom
TV show Director
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2016
The Catch
TV show Director
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2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
TV show Self
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
American Crime
TV show Aliyah Shadeed
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue: Smoke Jumpers
Movie Dynamite (voice)
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2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie Dynamite (voice)
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2014
The Strain
TV show Ruby Wain
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2014
The Leftovers
TV show Erika Murphy
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Gabby Douglas Story
Movie Natalie Hawkins
