Mary J. Blige
Acting
Born 1971-01-11
Yonkers, New York, USA
143 credits
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1
Time 100 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2018 Best Original Song Nominated Mighty River
- 2018 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Mudbound
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1 won
- 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Won
Time 100 1 won
- 2022 Time 100 Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- 2018 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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Mary Jane Blige (/blaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. She started her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989. She has released 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Blige has sold over 80 million records, has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and has also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017) and another for its second original song "Mighty River" for Mudbound; she also received a nomination for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, becoming the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year.
In 1992, Blige released her first album, What's the 411?. Her 1994 album My Life is among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[4] and Time magazine's All-Time 100 Albums. She received a Legends Award at the World Music Awards in 2006, and the Voice of Music Award from ASCAP in 2007. As of 2018, Blige has sold 80 million records worldwide. Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years. In 2017, Billboard magazine named her 2006 song "Be Without You" as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop song of all time, as it spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and over 75 weeks on the chart. In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time. ln 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" list.
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Acting
52 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Daily Show
Late Show with David Letterman
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Top of the Pops
Entourage
Sherri
Ghost Whisperer
The View
How to Get Away with Murder
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
30 Rock
black-ish
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
American Idol
Strong Medicine
Empire
The Umbrella Academy
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
MTV Video Music Awards
America's Next Top Model
Tamron Hall
People's Choice Awards
Intimate Portrait
Moesha
The Tyra Banks Show
All That
Lip Sync Battle
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Power Book II: Ghost
American Music Awards
Classic Albums
Scream: The TV Series
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The Jamie Foxx Show
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
The Jay Leno Show
Today
Trolls World Tour
MTV Unplugged
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
The Shop
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Rock of Ages
The Chris Rock Show
In Vogue: The 90s
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Yo! MTV Raps
The Marriage Ref
Other credits
8 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Hidden Figures
New York Undercover
The Help
The Word
In Living Color
VH1 Storytellers
The Color Purple
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