Actress Regina King: roles, films, biography, photos, interesting facts

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Regina King is an American actress, producer and director. The scope of her activities also includes scoring of animated films. The Los Angeles native has acted in 48 films and directed 13 feature films. In 52 projects she plays herself. Has been working in the film industry since 1985.

Movies and genres

The characters played by Regina King can be seen in such famous projects as "Enemy of the State", "The Big Bang Theory", "Jerry Maguire". The role of Margie Hendrix in the biographical drama "Ray" is called by film critics one of her most striking and convincing.

Films with Regina King belong to the following movie genres:

• Anime: "Ghetto".
• Biography: "Ray", "The Gabrielle Douglas Story", "Living Proof".
• Detective: "Enemy of the State", "The Leftovers".
• Drama: Shameless, Street Boys, Poetic Justice, Year of the Dog, Stella's Hobbies,"The Strain", "Christmas".
• Action: "24", "Miss Congeniality 2: Beautiful and Dangerous".
• Documentary: "Tupac: Resurrection", "Word N".
• Game: RuPaul's Royal Race.
• Comedy: Leap of Faith, Back to Earth, North Side.
• History: "Family lineage".
• Short: "Side by Side" (Director's Cut).
• Melodrama: "Love and Life in Chicago", "Family Wedding", "A Cinderella Story", "If Walls Could Talk".
• Cartoon: "Thunderstorm of ants".
• Adventures: "Mighty Joe Young", "Planes: Fireboy and Watergirl" (voice).
• Criminal: Undercover Cops, Higher Education, Seven Seconds.
• Music: "The Arsenio Hall Show", "Last Call with Carson Daly".

Roles, connections, awards

Regina King, whose filmography you can see above, worked with such famous actors as Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., Justin Theroux, Ice Cube, Vannesa Redgrave, Tom Cruise, Michelle Williams, Renee Zellweger, Chris Tucker and more

Participated in projects directed by Mark Mylod, John Kassar, Jane Anderson, John Singleton, Mark Rosman, Steve Carr and others.

In the feature films "Family Wedding", "Lydia Adams", "Seven Seconds", "Southland" Regina King played the main characters. In the latter, she showed the image of detective Lydia Adams.

Regina King won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie in 2015 and 2016 for her work in American Crime. In 2018, the actress was announced the winner of the Emmy Award in the above-mentioned category for her work in the film Seven Seconds.

Biography (with photo)

Regina King was born on January 15, 1971 in the family of an electrician. Her birthplace is Los Angeles. When the girl was seven years old, her parents filed for divorce. Young Regina tried her best to express herself in creativity, attended an acting studio.

In 1985, Regina agreed to the proposal to play the main character in the project "227", in which she would star in the next five years. In 1988, after graduating from high school, Regina King became a student at the University of Southern California.

In 1995, the young actress, who already had work in the "Guys Next Door" and "Poetic Justice" projects, was approved for the "Friday" project, which very quickly gained the status of a cult comedy.

In 1996, the actress was lucky enough to become Tom Cruise's partner in the sports drama "Jerry Maguire", where sheplayed the wife of the character Cuba Gooding Jr. In the future, the actress will play the wife of the main character in the film "A Fine Line Between Love and Hate" and the wife of the main character in the thriller film "Enemy of the State".

In 1997, actress Regina King married Ian Alexander, the father of her child. Ten years later, the family broke up. Now the actress has a romantic relationship with Malcolm-Jamal Warner, with whom she spoke back in the 1980s.

Interesting facts

This section contains information that actress Regina King felt it necessary to share with everyone.

• The actress claims that she tries her best to be flexible in her profession, and she very often succeeds.
• Before the first meeting with her future husband, she was sure that she would never get married.
• According to the actress, if a husband, returning home, finds his wife already sleeping, this can only mean that she is very tired - of him.
• Regina King did not end her marriage for a long time just because she wanted her child to be surrounded by a stable atmosphere of a family with two parents. She later realized that it was her mistake.
• The actress likes athletic men.
• She wants to have a fulfilling life.

Regina King thanks fate for being given the opportunity to play unusual characters that simply cannot be found anywhere on the street.