Regina King
- Acting
- January 15, 1971 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Children of Blood and Bone · Queen Nehanda
- Caught Stealing · Detective Roman
- Escape Room
- FOREVER · Executive producer, Director
- A Man in Full · Director, Executive producer
- Butterfly in the Sky · Self
- Shirley · Shirley Chisholm, Producer
- Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy · Self
- JANET JACKSON. · Self
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- The Harder They Fall · Trudy Smith
- Flag Day · U.S. Marshal Blake
- Directors on Directors · Self
- One Night in Miami... · Executive producer, Director
- Bottomless Brunch at Colman's · Self
- Watchmen · Angela Abar / Sister Night
- The Tamron Hall Show · Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- A Lifetime of Sundays · Narrator
- If Beale Street Could Talk · Sharon Rivers
- The Alec Baldwin Show · Self
- Seven Seconds · Latrice Butler
- The Good Doctor · Director
- August 28: A Day in the Life of a People · Self
- The Snowy Day · Mom (Voice)
- Insecure · Director
- This Is Us · Director
- Animal Kingdom · Director
- The Catch · Director
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- American Crime · Aliyah Shadeed, Terri LaCroix
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- Planes: Fire & Rescue: Smoke Jumpers · Dynamite (Voice)
- Planes: Fire & Rescue · Dynamite (Voice)
- The Strain · Ruby Wain
- The Leftovers · Erika Murphy
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Gabby Douglas Story · Natalie Hawkins
- Inside the Box · Stephanie Miles
- Let the Church Say Amen · Director
- Scandal · Director
- The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' · Self
- Shameless · Gail Johnson, Director
- The Talk · Self
- Our Family Wedding · Angela
- Who Do You Think You Are? · Self
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Southland · Detective Lydia Adams
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon · Self
- RuPaul's Drag Race · Self
- Living Proof · Ellie Jackson
- Hope and Miracles: The Making of 'Living Proof' · Self
- The Wendy Williams Show
- This Christmas · Lisa Whitfield Moore
- The Big Bang Theory · Janine Davis
- Grindin' · Self
- Year of the Dog · Layla
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- The Ant Bully · Kreela (Voice)
- The Boondocks · Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (Voice)
- Weekends at the D.L.
- Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous · Sam Fuller
- Ray · Margie Hendricks
- Genius. A Night for Ray Charles · Self
- A Cinderella Story · Rhonda
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend · Self
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde · Grace Rossiter
- Daddy Day Care · Kim Hinton
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Damaged Care · Cheryl Griffith
- Leap of Faith · Cynthia
- Truth Be Told · Rayne
- 24 · Sandra Palmer
- Good Day Live · Self
- Down to Earth · Sontee Jenkins
- The Acting Class · Self
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 · Allie