Regina King
Known For
Acting
Born
1971-01-15 in 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.
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Shameless
as Gail Johnson
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
24
as Sandra Palmer
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Big Bang Theory
as Janine Davis
The View
as Self
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
The Strain
as Ruby Wain
The Leftovers
as Erika Murphy
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Northern Exposure
as Mother Nature
The Wendy Williams Show
Southland
as Detective Lydia Adams
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self