Regina King has cemented her legacy in Hollywood — literally. The Academy award-winning actress was honored with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 28, 2021, at the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre.
King placed her hand and footprints and did a little happy dance as she stood barefoot in the wet cement, and etched “No place like home” under her name, the opening line of the theme song for “227,” the TV series from the late 1980s where she first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins.
“This means so much,” King said during the ceremony. “A lot of people are going to see this and they’re going to think it comes from ‘The Wizard of Oz’, but it comes from my beginning.”
“There’s not a time limit, there’s not a stale date on achieving your dreams,” King added. “If you love what you do, you should never stop working at it.”
King is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for an African-American performer. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. King first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins in the television series 227 from 1985 to 1990.
Notable roles followed in the films Friday (1995), animated series The Boondocks (2005–2014), and the crime television series Southland (2009–2013). From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the ABC anthology series American Crime, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and in 2018, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds, for which she won her third Emmy Award. She starred in Barry Jenkins’ film adaptation of the James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). For her performance, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. King won her fourth Emmy Award for starring in the dystopian superhero limited series Watchmen (2019).
King’s hall of fame recognition comes amid publicity for director Jeymes Samuel’s All-Star Black Western ‘The Harder They Fall‘ where she stars as Gertrude “Treacherous Trudy” Smith, —a gangster, a thief, and a killer, making her way through a male-dominated world— back in the day.
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