Regina King
Acting
Born 1971-01-15
Los Angeles, California, USA
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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.
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Acting
50 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Shameless
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
24
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Big Bang Theory
The Talk
The Leftovers
The Strain
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Good Day Live
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Northern Exposure
The Boondocks
Tamron Hall
Southland
New York Undercover
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Reading Rainbow
Watchmen
Jerry Maguire
A Cinderella Story
American Crime
227
Caught Stealing
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Boyz n the Hood
Enemy of the State
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Ant Bully
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Friday
Daddy Day Care
Mighty Joe Young
Seven Seconds
Ray
Children of Blood and Bone
Directors on Directors
The Harder They Fall
Directing
9 credits
Shameless
The Good Doctor
Scandal
This Is Us
Animal Kingdom
Insecure
The Catch
FOREVER
A Man in Full
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Producing
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