Regina King

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1971-01-15 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As Regina Rene King, 레지나 킹

Regina King

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Butterfly in the Sky

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Shirley

as Shirley Chisholm

2021
The Harder They Fall

as Trudy Smith

2021
Flag Day

as U.S. Marshal Blake

2019
2019
Watchmen

as Angela Abar / Sister Night

2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

2018
2018
Seven Seconds

as Latrice Butler

2016
2015
American Crime

as Aliyah Shadeed

2015
American Crime

as Terri LaCroix

2015
American Crime

as Kimara Walters

2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue

as Dynamite (voice)

2014
The Gabby Douglas Story

as Natalie Hawkins

2014
The Strain

as Ruby Wain

2014
The Leftovers

as Erika Murphy

2013
Inside the Box

as Stephanie Miles

2011
Shameless

as Gail Johnson

2010
2009
Southland

as Detective Lydia Adams

2009
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Judge

2008
Living Proof

as Ellie Jackson

2007
This Christmas

as Lisa Whitfield Moore

2007
Grindin'

as Herself

2007
2007
The Big Bang Theory

as Janine Davis

2006
The Ant Bully

as Kreela (voice)

2005
The Boondocks

as Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)

2004
Ray

as Margie Hendricks

2004
2003
Daddy Day Care

as Kim Hinton

2003
2002
Damaged Care

as Cheryl Griffith

2002
Truth Be Told

as Rayne

2002
Leap of Faith

as Cynthia

2001
Down to Earth

as Sontee Jenkins

2001
24

as Sandra Palmer

2001
2000
1999
1999
Where the Truth Lies

as Lillian Rose-Martin

1998
Mighty Joe Young

as Cecily Banks

1998
Enemy of the State

as Carla Dean

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Jerry Maguire

as Marcee Tidwell

1996
1995
Friday

as Dana

1995
1994
1993
1991
Boyz n the Hood

as Shalika

1985
227

as Brenda Jenkins

1983
Reading Rainbow

as Herself - Narrator (voice)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

1953
The Oscars

as Self - Best Supporting Actress winner

Director

Forever

as Director

Story of a Village

as Director

Bitter Root

as Director

2024
A Man in Full

as Director

2020
2017
The Good Doctor

as Director

2016
Animal Kingdom

as Director

2016
This Is Us

as Director

2016
The Catch

as Director

2016
Insecure

as Director

2013
2011
Shameless

as Director

Producer

Forever

as Executive Producer

Bitter Root

as Producer

2024
Shirley

as Producer

2024
A Man in Full

as Executive Producer

2020
One Night in Miami...

as Executive Producer