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Regina Rene King 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.
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entertainment · American actress and director (born 1971) · actor · voice actor · television actor · film actor · television director · film director · director · also Regina King, Regina Rene King, King
Born 15 January 1971 · Q234544
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At a festival where women directors have struggled to be programmed even after the festival committed to push for gender parity, King will rightly be the centre of attention as not only a female director, but a black female director – a group that is sorely underrepresented in this industry.
I love being the person that the idea starts from. And then you give these thoughts to your department heads, and they get excited and take it even further, and then bring things to the table that you may not have thought about. It
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“At a festival where women directors have struggled to be programmed even after the festival committed to push for gender parity, King will rightly be the centre of attention as not only a female director, but a black female director – a group that is sorely underrepresented in this industry.”
“I love being the person that the idea starts from. And then you give these thoughts to your department heads, and they get excited and take it even further, and then bring things to the table that you may not have thought about. It”
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BBC: Norway's king admitted to hospital and put on sick leave
The Guardian: Shirley review – Regina King rises above dutiful, by-the-numbers biopic
The Guardian: ‘So angry with God’: Regina King says she’s ‘a different person’ after son’s suicide
The Guardian: Ian Alexander Jr, son of actor and director Regina King, dies at 26
The Guardian: From Regina King to Issa Rae: the best looks from the NAACP awards 2021 – in pictures
The Guardian: Saturday Night Live: Regina King shines, cast mines Trump impeachment
The Guardian: One Night in Miami review – Regina King’s electrifying directorial debut
The Guardian: 'Being black in America requires emotional aerobics': Regina King on 'powder keg' movie One Night in Miami
The Guardian: Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami
The first film directed by an African-American woman to be selected in the festival's history
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Watchmen (2020).
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The Guardian: Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: 'My community is living this story'
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for If Beale Street Could Talk (2019).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk (2019).
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Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Seven Seconds (2018).
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King played the mother of a murdered black teenager in the Netflix original series Seven Seconds, winning her third Primetime Emmy Award
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Awarded Critics' Choice Television Award for American Crime (2017).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for American Crime (2016).
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Directed two episodes of Scandal, and single episodes of The Catch, Animal Kingdom, This Is Us and Shameless
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for American Crime (2015).
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And 2016, King won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for her roles
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King starred in The Leftovers, which earned her a Peabody Award
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King was a cast member on ABC's John Ridley-penned ensemble drama American Crime, playing three roles including a devout member of the Nation of Islam and the sister of a drug addict accused of murder
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Was cast in two television series, The Strain and Shameless
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King played Caltech HR manager Janine Davis in the television series The Big Bang Theory
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King played the main role of Sandra Palmer in season six of television series 24 and acted in films Year of the Dog and This Christmas
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Awarded BET Award for Best Actor & Actress for Ray (2005).
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Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Ray (2005).
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King was cast in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous and began voicing the characters Huey and Riley Freeman for the animated series The Boondocks
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King played Sontee Jenkins in Chris and Paul Weitz's Down to Earth, receiving praise from critics for her performance
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Was cast in Tony Scott's film Enemy of the State, receiving her first nomination at the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
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Was featured in the hit comedy film Friday
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And one for Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress in a Long Running Series Comedy or Drama in 1987
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As Brenda Jenkins on the television series 227, a role she played until the show ended in 1990
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In Los Angeles, California, and grew up in View Park–Windsor Hills
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Born 1971-01-15.
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