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.

Filmography

• 2027Children of Blood and Bone — Queen Nehanda
• 2025Caught Stealing — Detective Roman
• 2025Escape Room
• FOREVER — Executive Producer, Director
• A Man in Full — Director, Executive Producer
• 2024Shirley — Shirley Chisholm, Producer
• 2021Flag Day — U.S. Marshal Blake
• 2021The Harder They Fall — Trudy Smith
• 2020One Night in Miami... — Director, Executive Producer
• 2019A Lifetime of Sundays — Narrator
• Watchmen — Angela Abar / Sister Night
• 2018If Beale Street Could Talk — Sharon Rivers
• Seven Seconds — Latrice Butler
• The Good Doctor — Director
• Animal Kingdom — Director
• Insecure — Director
• The Catch — Director
• 2016The Snowy Day — Mom (voice)
• This Is Us — Director
• American Crime — Aliyah Shadeed, Terri LaCroix, Kimara Walters
• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue — Dynamite (voice)
• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue: Smoke Jumpers — Dynamite (voice)
• 2014The Gabby Douglas Story — Natalie Hawkins
• The Leftovers — Erika Murphy
• The Strain — Ruby Wain
• 2013Inside the Box — Stephanie Miles
• 2013Let the Church Say Amen — Director
• Scandal — Director
• Shameless — Gail Johnson, Director
• 2010Our Family Wedding — Angela
• Southland — Detective Lydia Adams
• 2008Living Proof — Ellie Jackson
• The Wendy Williams Show
• The Big Bang Theory — Janine Davis
• 2007This Christmas — Lisa Whitfield Moore
• 2007Year of the Dog — Layla
• 2006The Ant Bully — Kreela (voice)
• 2005Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous — Sam Fuller
• The Boondocks — Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)
• Weekends at the D.L.
• 2004A Cinderella Story — Rhonda
• 2004Ray — Margie Hendricks
• 2003Daddy Day Care — Kim Hinton
• 2003Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde — Grace Rossiter
• 2002Damaged Care — Cheryl Griffith
• Leap of Faith — Cynthia
• 2002Truth Be Told — Rayne
• 24 — Sandra Palmer
• 2001Down to Earth — Sontee Jenkins
• 2000If These Walls Could Talk 2 — Allie
• 1999Love and Action in Chicago — Lois Newton
• 1999Where the Truth Lies — Lillian Rose-Martin
• 1998Enemy of the State — Carla Dean
• 1998How Stella Got Her Groove Back — Vanessa
• 1998Mighty Joe Young — Cecily Banks
• 1998Rituals — Iris
• 1996A Thin Line Between Love and Hate — Mia
• 1996Jerry Maguire — Marcee Tidwell
• 1995Friday — Dana
• 1995Higher Learning — Monet
• New York Undercover — Marah
• Living Single
• 1993Poetic Justice — Iesha
• 1991Boyz n the Hood — Shalika
• Northern Exposure — Mother Nature
• 227 — Brenda Jenkins
• 1985The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
• Story of a Village — Self, Director

Appearances as themselves (35)

• 2024Butterfly in the Sky — Self (archive footage)
• JANET JACKSON. — Self
• Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy — Self
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• Bottomless Brunch at Colman's — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• The Alec Baldwin Show — Self
• 2017August 28: A Day in the Life of a People — Self
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2011The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' — Self
• The Talk — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2008Hope and Miracles: The Making of 'Living Proof' — Self
• 2007Grindin' — Herself
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2004Genius. A Night for Ray Charles — Self
• 2003Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• 2000The Acting Class — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Oscars — Self - Presenter