Empire
It’s #RelationshipTuesday, the week of our Empire Season 2 Binge-A-Thon and #RepresentRealMoms month, a trifecta of blog material. So it made us think, what if Cookie was your mom? How would she interact with bae during the significant moments of a relationship? Check it out via the Internet’s best GIFs and mark your calendar for our […]
While all of us are playing checkers, the Lyon clan is playing chess, and in the words of the ever slick and seductive Lucious Lyon, “It’s game time bitches!” To kick off our Season 2 Binge-A-Thon (all day Saturday starting 9am), we thought it only appropriate to devote each day leading up to it to a […]
Yes, you read that right — Cookie, Lucious, Hakeem and ’em have a new home on TV One starting in May right before the season 2 finale on Fox. Get ready for a Season 2 binge watch beginning May 14, 9/8am C. The good news was announced Wednesday by TV One President Brad Siegel who said, […]
For her role as Cookie Lyon on Empire, Taraji P. Henson was nominated for an Emmy® Award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won the BET Award for Best Actress, the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and she is nominated for a TCA […]
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Terrence Howard began his acting career as Jackie Jackson in the television miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, which was quickly followed by several notable TV appearances on shows such as Living Single and NYPD Blue. He made his feature film debut in the 1993 movie Who’s the Man?, which he […]
An accomplished actor, singer and songwriter, Jussie Smollett can be seen in the pre-Civil War series Underground. Smollett’s feature film credits include The Mighty Ducks and Rob Reiner’s North. He also appeared in the made-for-TV movie Alex Haley’s Queen, as well as the telefilm A Little Piece of Heaven opposite Cloris Leachman. He then went […]
An accomplished musician, Bryshere “Yazz” Gray has performed at Jay-Z’s 2013 Made in America Festival, Sunoco’s Welcome America 4th of July Celebration, the annual Roots Picnic Festival, Philadelphia’s signature annual ODUNDE Celebration and Power 99’s 2013 Powerhouse concert. He also has opened for rappers Fabolous and 2 Chainz. In 2015, Gray went on the YTG […]
Caymanian actress Grace Gealey moved to the U.S. to attend the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she received a B.A. in theater arts. During her time at USF, acting afforded her the opportunity to communicate viscerally – a desire that resulted from being a child of deaf adults. Upon graduating from college, Gealey […]
Gabourey Sidibe made her film debut as the title character in Lee Daniels’ Precious. For her stunning performance, Sidibe earned Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award nominations for Best Actress, as well as SAG, Broadcast Film Critics and BAFTA nominations. She won the Independent Spirit Award and a NAACP Image Award for Best Actress, the […]
Classically trained actor Trai Byers was seen in the Academy Award®-nominated film Selma, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth and Common. Byers earned his first feature roles in the acclaimed independent films Americons and Jayhawkers. He received an M.F.A. from the Yale School of […]
Kaitlin Doubleday achieved an early start to her thespian career after being discovered in a high school musical in Los Angeles. At age 17, she made her film debut opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can. After graduating from high school, she studied acting at HB Studios in New York and […]
Malik Yoba is an award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and Hollywood veteran of more than 20 years, who is best known for his roles in Cool Runnings, New York Undercover, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, as well as Girlfriends and Arrested Development. He has appeared in […]