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.
Regina King
Maria Rambeau
for Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel (2019)
Suggested by stevenkelly
Carol Danvers is a gifted but reckless Air Force fighter pilot whose lifelong struggle to prove herself, fueled by an abusive father, ultimately costs her her career. Given a second chance as a security officer aboard a S.W.O.R.D. orbital research station, Carol becomes caught in an attack by Skrull agents that destroys the station's experimental faster-than-light engine. The explosion infuses her with energy from the Tesseract and transforms her into a human-Kree hybrid with extraordinary abilities. Taken to the Kree Empire by scientist Walter Lawson—secretly the Kree warrior Mar-Vell—Carol joins Starforce and becomes an elite soldier in the Kree-Skrull War. But as she travels across the galaxy, Carol begins questioning the Kree's propaganda and discovers that the Supreme Intelligence has deliberately prolonged the war to maintain Kree power. Carol eventually uncovers Mar-Vell's secret connection to the Skrulls: he once fell in love with a Skrull agent named Anelle, and together they had a son, Dorrek, a child born of both Kree and Skrull blood. When Dorrek is captured, Carol realizes that the war has turned innocent people into weapons and sees how closely the Kree's manipulation mirrors the abuse she suffered from her father. During a massive confrontation between the Kree and Skrull fleets, Carol rejects her role as a living weapon and uses her powers to protect civilians and rescue Dorrek. After Mar-Vell sacrifices himself to save her, Carol destroys the Supreme Intelligence and embraces her identity as Captain Marvel. Returning to Earth with Anelle and Dorrek, Carol reconciles with Maria before setting out into space once again—not to prove her worth, but to protect a galaxy filled with worlds that have no heroes.
