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Regina King

Acting

Born January 15, 1971 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Also known as Regina Rene King

Biography

Regina Rene King 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.

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Awards & recognition

  • Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 2020
  • Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2019
  • Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture · 2019
  • Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 2018
  • Critics' Choice Television Award · 2017
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  • Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 2016
  • Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 2015
  • BET Award — Best Actor & Actress · 2005
  • NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture · 2005
  • Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2019 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

2020as Self

The Good Doctor

2017Director

Reading Rainbow

1983as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Boondocks

2005as Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)

Escape Room

2025

Butterfly in the Sky

2022as Self (archive footage)

This Is Us

2016Director

Shameless

2011as Gail Johnson

Living Single

1993

Southland

2009as Detective Lydia Adams

The Big Bang Theory

2007as Janine Davis

Janet Jackson.

2022as Self

Animal Kingdom

2016Director

24

2001as Sandra Palmer

Northern Exposure

1990as Mother Nature

The Leftovers

2014as Erika Murphy

Watchmen

2019as Angela Abar / Sister Night

Boyz n the Hood

1991as Shalika

The Strain

2014as Ruby Wain

RuPaul's Drag Race

2009as Self - Guest Judge

Ray

2004as Margie Hendricks

The Gabby Douglas Story

2014as Natalie Hawkins

Seven Seconds

2018as Latrice Butler

New York Undercover

1994as Marah

Insecure

2016Director

Scandal

2012Director

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

Friday

1995as Dana

Enemy of the State

1998as Carla Dean

One Night in Miami...

2020Director, Executive Producer

The Snowy Day

2016as Mom (voice)

Where the Truth Lies

1999as Lillian Rose-Martin

Jerry Maguire

1996as Marcee Tidwell

If Beale Street Could Talk

2018as Sharon Rivers

Who Do You Think You Are?

2010as Self

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self - Host

Forever

2025Director, Executive Producer

Caught Stealing

2025as Detective Roman

American Crime

2015as Kimara Walters

227

1985as Brenda Jenkins

Shirley

2024as Shirley Chisholm

Poetic Justice

1993as Iesha

The Harder They Fall

2021as Trudy Smith

The Catch

2016Director

This Christmas

2007as Lisa Whitfield Moore

A Cinderella Story

2004as Rhonda

The Daily Show

1996as Self

A Man in Full

2024Executive Producer

Mighty Joe Young

1998as Cecily Banks

Higher Learning

1995as Monet