Cast & creator
Regina King
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers
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.
Also known as: Regina Rene King
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television credits
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1953–2027 · acting roles
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Filmography (113)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Shameless
Gail Johnson
2011Shameless
Director
2011
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The View
Self
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
2009
24
Sandra Palmer
2001
The Good Doctor
Director
2017
This Is Us
Director
2016
Scandal
Director
2012
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
The Tamron Hall Show
Self - Guest
2019
The Talk
Self
2010
Animal Kingdom
Director
2016
Good Day Live
Self
2001
The Big Bang Theory
Janine Davis
2007
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
The Strain
Ruby Wain
2014
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2009
Insecure
Director
2016
Northern Exposure
Mother Nature
1990
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self
2016
The Leftovers
Erika Murphy
2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
The Boondocks
Huey Freeman / Riley Freeman (voice)
2005
Southland
Detective Lydia Adams
2009
New York Undercover
Marah
1994
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
The Oscars
Self - Presenter
1953The Oscars
Self
1953
Living Single
1993
Watchmen
Angela Abar / Sister Night
2019
227
Brenda Jenkins
1985
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2010
Caught Stealing
Detective Roman
2025
American Crime
Aliyah Shadeed
2015American Crime
Terri LaCroix
2015American Crime
Kimara Walters
2015
A Cinderella Story
Rhonda
2004
Enemy of the State
Carla Dean
1998
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Dynamite (voice)
2014
The Catch
Director
2016
Jerry Maguire
Marcee Tidwell
1996
Boyz n the Hood
Shalika
1991
The Ant Bully
Kreela (voice)
2006
Seven Seconds
Latrice Butler
2018
Directors on Directors
Self
2021
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Grace Rossiter
2003
FOREVER
Executive Producer
2025FOREVER
Director
2025
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Self
2020
The Harder They Fall
Trudy Smith
2021
Friday
Dana
1995
A Man in Full
Director
2024A Man in Full
Executive Producer
2024
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Sam Fuller
2005
Mighty Joe Young
Cecily Banks
1998
JANET JACKSON.
Self
2022
If Beale Street Could Talk
Sharon Rivers
2018
Daddy Day Care
Kim Hinton
2003
Ray
Margie Hendricks
2004
Leap of Faith
Cynthia
2002Weekends at the D.L.
2005
Down to Earth
Sontee Jenkins
2001
One Night in Miami...
Executive Producer
2020One Night in Miami...
Director
2020
Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy
Self
2022
The Alec Baldwin Show
Self
2018
Children of Blood and Bone
Queen Nehanda
2027
Higher Learning
Monet
1995
Poetic Justice
Iesha
1993
This Christmas
Lisa Whitfield Moore
2007
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Vanessa
1998
Flag Day
U.S. Marshal Blake
2021
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Allie
2000
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Mia
1996
Year of the Dog
Layla
2007
Our Family Wedding
Angela
2010
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
2021
The Gabby Douglas Story
Natalie Hawkins
2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue: Smoke Jumpers
Dynamite (voice)
2014
Shirley
Shirley Chisholm
2024Shirley
Producer
2024
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Self
2017
Butterfly in the Sky
Self (archive footage)
2024
Living Proof
Ellie Jackson
2008
The NBC All Star Hour: Let's All Be There
1985
Damaged Care
Cheryl Griffith
2002
Escape Room
2025
Where the Truth Lies
Lillian Rose-Martin
1999
Love and Action in Chicago
Lois Newton
1999
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Self
2011
The Snowy Day
Mom (voice)
2016
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Self
2003
A Lifetime of Sundays
Narrator
2019
Hope and Miracles: The Making of 'Living Proof'
Self
2008
Let the Church Say Amen
Director
2013
Truth Be Told
Rayne
2002
The Acting Class
Self
2000
Rituals
Iris
1998
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Self
2004
Inside the Box
Stephanie Miles
2013Story of a Village
Self
Story of a Village
Director
Grindin'
Herself
2007