Black Women Directors

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Regina King

Regina King is an Academy Award and Emmy-winning actress and director who has been working in the film and TV industry for more than 30 years. She directs both movies and episodic TV series, including Southland, Being Mary Jane, Scandal, This Is Us, and Shameless. Her directorial debut, Let The Church Say Amen, stars Naturi Naughton as a preacher’s daughter who is struggling to pull her life together. Her next feature film, One Night in Miami, explored Muhammad Ali’s chance encounter with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown in 1964.