Age: 55
female
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.
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Maria Ragland Davis
for Maria Ragland Davis in American Crime Story: Harvard Educated Killer
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In 2003 the Biology Department at University of Alabama in Huntsville welcomed a new instructor. Professor Amy Bishop seemed to have everything they were looking for. She had a PH.D. in genetics from Harvard University and had been an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Not to mention a loving husband and four children. She seemed like she would be a great fit for the school. However once they hired her they saw another side. Professor Bishop was an extreme narcissist who constantly bragged about her Harvard Education and family ties. She soon proved to be a terrible teacher described by her students as ineffective in the classroom and frequently angry and argumentative. Because of this several students lodged complaints with the biology department asking for her termination. At the same time the university found out about Amy´s temper when they learned about an incident that happened at an IHOP back when she and her family were living in Massachusetts. When she found at another woman had gotten the last booster seat, she walked over to the woman´s table where she was eating with her children and launched into a profanity laced rant demanding the booster seat. When the woman refused Amy attacked her and punched her in the head all while yelling ¨I am Dr. Amy Bishop¨ When the university found out about this incident it was the last straw and they proceeded to denied her tenure in 2009. Amy knew that she would not have her teaching contract renewed in 2010 but she wouldn´t let that happen. It was time for who to get revenge on all the people who were (in her mind) holding her down because she was smarter than them. On February 12, 2010 she attended a routine faculty meeting of the biology department. The meeting went completely normally for the first have and Amy said nothing. Halfway through the meeting, Amy pulled out a handgun and opened fire and the biology faculty killing three and wounding another three. She would´ve killed more but before she could her gun jammed. She was arrested by police (who she demanded call her Dr. Amy Bishop) and was sentenced to Life in Prison without parole in 2012. It may not be her first time killing as in 1986 she shot and killed her brother in what was ruled an accident (her parents connections may´ve influenced that ruling.)
