{"id":157433,"date":"2021-10-29T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=157433"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:32:49","slug":"oscar-and-emmy-winning-actress-regina-king-cements-her-legacy-with-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/oscar-and-emmy-winning-actress-regina-king-cements-her-legacy-with-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar and Emmy Winning Actress, Regina King, Cements Her Legacy with Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regina_King\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regina King<\/a> has cemented her legacy in Hollywood \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King placed her hand and footprints and did a little happy dance as she stood barefoot in the wet cement, and etched \u201cNo place like home\u201d under her name, the opening line of the theme song for \u201c227,\u201d the TV series from the late 1980s where she first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This means so much,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>King said during the ceremony.&nbsp;<em>\u201cA lot of people are going to see this and they\u2019re going to think it comes from \u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019, but it comes from my beginning.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>There\u2019s not a time limit, there\u2019s not a stale date on achieving your dreams,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>King added.<em>\u00a0\u201cIf you love what you do, you should never stop working at it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Regina-King-Walk-Fame-Star-Fashion-Alberta-Ferretti-Tom-Lorenzo-Site-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Hollywood Walk of Fame\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-157439\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CVliyKqBTXV\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>King<\/strong> is the recipient of\u00a0various accolades, including an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, and four\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards, the most for an African-American performer.\u00a0In 2019,\u00a0<em>Time<\/em> magazine named her one of the\u00a0100 most influential people in the world. King first gained attention for her role as Brenda Jenkins in the television series\u00a0<em>227<\/em>\u00a0from 1985 to 1990. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notable roles followed in the films\u00a0<em>Friday<\/em> (1995), animated series\u00a0<em>The Boondocks<\/em>\u00a0(2005\u20132014), and the crime television series\u00a0<em>Southland<\/em>\u00a0(2009\u20132013). From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the\u00a0ABC\u00a0anthology series\u00a0<em>American Crime<\/em>, for which she won two\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards, and in 2018, she starred in the\u00a0Netflix miniseries\u00a0<em>Seven Seconds<\/em>, for which she won her third Emmy Award. She starred in\u00a0Barry Jenkins&#8217; film adaptation of the\u00a0James Baldwin novel <em>If Beale Street Could Talk<\/em> (2018). For her performance, she won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the\u00a0Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. King won her fourth Emmy Award for starring in the\u00a0dystopian superhero\u00a0limited series\u00a0<em>Watchmen<\/em>\u00a0(2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King&#8217;s hall of fame recognition comes amid publicity for director Jeymes Samuel&#8217;s All-Star Black Western <strong>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/09\/the-harder-they-fall-trailer-regina-king-lakeith-stanfield-zazie-beetz-idris-elba-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Harder They Fall<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong> where she stars as Gertrude &#8220;Treacherous Trudy&#8221; Smith, \u2014a gangster, a thief, and a killer, making her way through a male-dominated world\u2014 back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regina King has cemented her legacy in Hollywood \u2014 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. 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