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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 15, 1971
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Regina Rene King
Regina King
2.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Children of Blood and Bone
2027
6.9
Detective Roman
Caught Stealing
2025
10.0
Escape Room
2025
8.2
Self (archive footage)
Butterfly in the Sky
2024
6.8
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley
2024
6.0
Self
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
2022
7.8
Self
JANET JACKSON.
2022
7.0
Self
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
6.6
Trudy Smith
The Harder They Fall
2021
5.8
U.S. Marshal Blake
Flag Day
2021
Credits
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Children of Blood and Bone
2027
0.0
Caught Stealing
as Detective Roman
2025
6.9
Escape Room
2025
10.0
Butterfly in the Sky
as Self (archive footage)
2024
8.2
Shirley
as Shirley Chisholm
2024
6.8
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
as Self
2022
6.0
JANET JACKSON.
as Self
2022
7.8
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2021
7.0
The Harder They Fall
as Trudy Smith
2021
6.6
Flag Day
as U.S. Marshal Blake
2021
5.8
Directors on Directors
as Self
2021
0.0
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
as Self
2020
10.0
Watchmen
as Angela Abar / Sister Night
2019
7.6
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
A Lifetime of Sundays
as Narrator
2019
0.0
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Sharon Rivers
2018
6.9
The Alec Baldwin Show
as Self
2018
1.0
Seven Seconds
as Latrice Butler
2018
7.3
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as Self
2017
1.0
The Snowy Day
as Mom (voice)
2016
7.0
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self
2016
5.9
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
American Crime
as Aliyah Shadeed
2015
6.7
American Crime
as Terri LaCroix
2015
6.7
American Crime
as Kimara Walters
2015
6.7
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Planes | Fire and Rescue: Smokejumpers
as Dynamite (voice)
2014
6.5
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Dynamite (voice)
2014
6.2
The Strain
as Ruby Wain
2014
7.5
The Leftovers
as Erika Murphy
2014
7.7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Gabby Douglas Story
as Natalie Hawkins
2014
7.3
Inside the Box
as Stephanie Miles
2013
6.5
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
as Self
2011
2.0
Shameless
as Gail Johnson
2011
8.2
Our Family Wedding
as Angela
2010
5.6
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2010
6.6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Southland
as Detective Lydia Adams
2009
7.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2009
6.1
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
Living Proof
as Ellie Jackson
2008
6.5
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
5.5
This Christmas
as Lisa Whitfield Moore
2007
6.5
The Big Bang Theory
as Janine Davis
2007
7.9
Grindin'
as Herself
2007
6.0
Year of the Dog
as Layla
2007
5.4
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Ant Bully
as Kreela (voice)
2006
5.8
The Boondocks
as Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)
2005
8.2
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Weekends at the D.L.
2005
0.0
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as Sam Fuller
2005
5.7
Ray
as Margie Hendricks
2004
7.4
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
as Self
2004
7.3
A Cinderella Story
as Rhonda
2004
6.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
as Self
2003
4.5
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Grace Rossiter
2003
5.7
Daddy Day Care
as Kim Hinton
2003
5.9
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Damaged Care
as Cheryl Griffith
2002
0.0
Leap of Faith
as Cynthia
2002
9.0
Truth Be Told
as Rayne
2002
7.5
24
as Sandra Palmer
2001
7.8
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Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
Down to Earth
as Sontee Jenkins
2001
5.5
The Acting Class
as Self
2000
5.5
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Allie
2000
6.5
Love and Action in Chicago
as Lois Newton
1999
4.7
Where the Truth Lies
as Lillian Rose-Martin
1999
6.0
Mighty Joe Young
as Cecily Banks
1998
6.3
Enemy of the State
as Carla Dean
1998
7.1
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Vanessa
1998
5.8
Rituals
as Iris
1998
0.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Jerry Maguire
as Marcee Tidwell
1996
7.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
as Mia
1996
5.6
Friday
as Dana
1995
7.1
Higher Learning
as Monet
1995
6.3
New York Undercover
as Marah
1994
7.2
Living Single
1993
8.3
Poetic Justice
as Iesha
1993
6.8
Boyz n the Hood
as Shalika
1991
7.6
Northern Exposure
as Mother Nature
1990
7.9
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985
0.0
227
as Brenda Jenkins
1985
6.7
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
8.3
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
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Story of a Village
as Self
N/A
0.0