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Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971
[1]) 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.
[2] Time magazine named her one of the
100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
[3]
King first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins in the television series
227 from 1985 to 1990. Notable roles include 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.