Regina King trivia: 60 facts about the Academy award winning actress!

Regina King is one of the hard working actresses in the business and recently she became an Academy award winning actress!

So it is the perfect time to find out trivia and facts about her career!

1. Her full name is Regina Rene King
2. She was born on January 15, 1971
3. Regina King is an American Academy Award winning actress
4. She is also a television director
5. She first gained attention in 1985 as Brenda Jenkins in the NBC television series 227
6. She would go on to star in both television and film
7. She rose to greater prominence with roles like Dana Jones in Friday (1995), Marcee Tidwell in Jerry Maguire (1996)
8. Riley and Huey Freeman on the hit animated series The Boondocks
9. And Detective Lydia Adams on Southland
10. For Southland, she earned two Critics’ Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2012 and 2013
11. In 2018, her performance as Sharon Rivers in the film If Beale Street Could Talk earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
12. And the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress
13. From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the ABC anthology series American Crime
14. For which she received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations
15. Winning twice
16. Regina King was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award
17. Also from 2015 to 2017, she played Erika Murphy in the HBO drama The Leftovers
18. For which she received a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination
19. In 2018, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds
20. For which she won her third Emmy
21. Regina King has a recurring role as Janine Davis in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory
22. She has starred in various films
23. Including Ray, Poetic Justice, Friday, and Legally Blonde 2
24. Regina Rene King was born in Los Angeles
25. She grew up in View Park- Windsor Hills
26. She is the eldest daughter of Gloria (Cain), a special education teacher
27. And Thomas King, an electrician
28. Regina King’s parents divorced in 1979
29. King’s younger sister is former actress Reina King
30. She appeared on What’s Happening Now!!
31. Regina King attended Westchester High School
32. She graduated in 1988
33. She later attended the University of Southern California
34. Regina King began her acting career in 1985 playing the role of Brenda Jenkins on the television series 227
35. A role she played until the show ended in 1990
36. She went on to appear in the John Singleton films Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice and Higher Learning
37. In 1995, she was featured in the hit comedy film Friday
38. In 1996, she starred in the Martin Lawrence dark comedy- romance A Thin Line Between Love and Hate as Mia
39. Later in 1996 she gained fame starring in the blockbuster romantic comedy film Jerry Maguire as Marcee Tidwell
40. The wife of Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s character
41. She played Will Smith’s character’s wife in Enemy of the State
42. She was also featured in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Mighty Joe Young, Down to Earth, Daddy Day Care, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, A Cinderella Story, Ray and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
43. Beginning in the mid- 2000s, she had ongoing roles on several TV series,
44. Including acclaimed work as the voice of Huey and Riley Freeman for the animated series The Boondocks and Detective Lydia Adams on the TNT police drama Southland
45. She also appeared in roles on 24, The Big Bang Theory, and Shameless
46. In 2007 she played Lisa Moore in This Christmas
47. She was a cast member on ABC’s John Ridley- penned ensemble drama American Crime
48. She played a devout member of the Nation of Islam and sister to a drug addict accused of murder
49. In September 2015 and September 2016, King won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie for American Crime
50. In 2018, she played the role of the mother of a murdered black teenager in Netflix original series Seven Seconds
51. Winning her third Primetime Emmy Award
52. Her performance in the 2018 film If Beale Street Could Talk, directed by Barry Jenkins, garnered critical acclaim
53. In 1997, King married Ian Alexander
54. But they divorced in 2007
55. They have one son, Ian Alexander Jr.
56. He was born on January 19, 1996
57. King dated actor Malcolm- Jamal Warner from 2011
58. Until March 2013
59. She has directed lots of tv episodes for popular tv seires
60. She will have a main role in the upcoming tv series Watchmen