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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Regina King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jan 15, 1971 In Los Angeles, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 84
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Oscars 1953-03-19
- Latest Project:
- Movie Story of a Village 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Story of a Village | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Caught Stealing | Roman | 2025 |
| Movie | Shirley | Shirley Chisholm | 2024-03-15 |
| Movie | Butterfly in the Sky | Self (archive footage) | 2024-03-17 |
| Series | Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy | Self | 2022-02-03 |
| Series | Variety Studio: Directors on Directors | Self | 2021-03-03 |
| Movie | Flag Day | U.S. Marshal Blake | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | The Harder They Fall | Trudy Smith | 2021-10-22 |
| Movie | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021-11-20 |
| Series | Bottomless Brunch at Colman's | Self | 2020-05-03 |
| Movie | A Lifetime of Sundays | Narrator | 2019-08-25 |
| Series | Tamron Hall | Self - Guest | 2019-09-09 |
| Series | Watchmen | Angela Abar / Sister Night | 2019-10-20 |
| Series | Seven Seconds | Latrice Butler | 2018-02-23 |
| Series | The Alec Baldwin Show | Self | 2018-10-14 |
| Movie | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers | 2018-12-14 |
| Movie | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Self | 2017-08-26 |
| Series | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Self | 2016-02-08 |
| Movie | The Snowy Day | Mom | 2016-11-25 |
| Series | American Crime | Kimara Walters | 2015-03-05 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015-08-02 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Movie | The Gabby Douglas Story | Natalie Hawkins | 2014-02-01 |
| Series | The Leftovers | Erika Murphy | 2014-06-29 |
| Series | The Strain | Ruby Wain | 2014-07-13 |
| Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
| Movie | Planes | Fire and Rescue: Smokejumpers | Dynamite (voice) | 2014-11-04 |
| Movie | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Dynamite (voice) | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | Inside the Box | Stephanie Miles | 2013-09-30 |
| Series | Shameless | Gail Johnson | 2011-01-09 |
| Movie | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | 2011-07-19 |
| Movie | Our Family Wedding | Angela | 2010-03-12 |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2010-03-05 |
| Series | Southland | Detective Lydia Adams | 2009-04-09 |
| Series | RuPaul's Drag Race | Self - Guest Judge | 2009-02-02 |
| Series | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | 2009-07-16 |
| Series | The Wendy Williams Show | Unknown | 2008-07-14 |
| Movie | Living Proof | Ellie Jackson | 2008-10-18 |
| Movie | Year of the Dog | Layla | 2007-04-13 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | Grindin' | Herself | 2007-08-21 |
| Series | The Big Bang Theory | Janine Davis | 2007-09-24 |
| Movie | This Christmas | Lisa Whitfield Moore | 2007-11-27 |
| Movie | The Ant Bully | Kreela (voice) | 2006-07-28 |
| Series | Weekends at the D.L. | Unknown | 2005-07-29 |
| Movie | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Sam Fuller | 2005-03-11 |
| Series | The Boondocks | Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice) | 2005-11-06 |
| Movie | A Cinderella Story | Rhonda | 2004-07-16 |
| Movie | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Self | 2004-10-07 |
| Movie | Ray | Margie Hendricks | 2004-10-29 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | 2003-01-26 |
| Movie | Daddy Day Care | Kim Hinton | 2003-05-09 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | 2003-09-02 |
| Movie | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Grace Rossiter | 2003-07-02 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
| Series | Leap of Faith | Cynthia | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | Truth Be Told | Rayne | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Damaged Care | Cheryl Griffith | 2002-05-26 |
| Movie | Down to Earth | Sontee Jenkins | 2001-02-16 |
| Series | Good Day Live | Self | 2001-09-17 |
| Series | 24 | Sandra Palmer | 2001-11-06 |
| Movie | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Allie | 2000-03-05 |
| Movie | The Acting Class | Self | 2000-04-29 |
| Movie | Love and Action in Chicago | Lois Newton | 1999-09-15 |
| Movie | Where the Truth Lies | Lillian Rose-Martin | 1999-09-13 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | Carla Dean | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Vanessa | 1998-08-14 |
| Movie | Mighty Joe Young | Cecily Banks | 1998-12-25 |
| Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | A Thin Line Between Love and Hate | Mia | 1996-04-04 |
| Movie | Jerry Maguire | Marcee Tidwell | 1996-12-13 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Higher Learning | Monet | 1995-01-11 |
| Movie | Friday | Dana | 1995-04-26 |
| Series | New York Undercover | Marah | 1994-09-08 |
| Movie | Poetic Justice | Iesha | 1993-07-23 |
| Series | Living Single | Unknown | 1993-08-29 |
| Movie | Boyz n the Hood | Shalika | 1991-07-12 |
| Series | Northern Exposure | Unknown | 1990-07-12 |
| Series | 227 | Brenda Jenkins | 1985-09-14 |
| Series | Reading Rainbow | Herself - Narrator (voice) | 1983-06-06 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |