Gina Wilhelm Actress – Last Chance to Debate Oscar’s Good Actress
Of particular import, they point to the fact that Gabourey Sidibe (as well as costar and supporting actress favorite Mo’Nique) were both honored at the NAACP Image Awards.
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Gina Wilhelm Actress – Last Chance to Debate Oscar’s Good Actress
Of particular import, they point to the fact that Gabourey Sidibe (as well as costar and supporting actress favorite Mo’Nique) were both honored at the NAACP Image Awards.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Remembering Collin Wilcox Paxton
Collin Wilcox Paxton passed away earlier this month at the age of 74. Wilcox played Mayella Violet Ewell in the film version of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Her character falsely accused Brock Peters, who is black and is defended in court by Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck. Peck won an Oscar for his performance.
In 2007, Paxton talked about her audition for the role. Already an accomplished stage actress, she said the other girls reading for the role were too made up. “They had curly, clean hair and wore brassieres and high heels.
“I wore a secondhand dress, tennis shoes with holes in them, and dirty little white socks. I rubbed cold cream through my hair — that’s why my hair looked so dirty,” she said.
Paxton was involved with the civil rights movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
At once NAACP conference in Monterrey, CA, Paxton received many “unfriendly looks,” and a conference official had to remind the attendees that she was not her character from the film.
Paxton appeared on TV in “The Twilight Zone,” “The Waltons,” “The Fugitive,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Gunsmoke.”
On film, she was also in “Jaws 2,” “The Baby Maker,” and “Catch-22.”
Her Broadway debut was in “The Day the Money Stopped,” for which she earned the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female.
She also wrote the play “Papa’s Angels,” which was later adapted into a book and a TV movie.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Shelli Boone Premieres One-Woman Show
Shelli Boone’s new play, “Out West: Women of the Plains,” will be opening Friday, May 1, at Playhouse Theatre Players in Downtown Los Angeles.
Boone wrote and produced the show, in which she portrays women during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Boone has been nominated for an NAACP Award and made her on-screen debut co-hosting BET’s “Mad Sports.” She has also appeared in “Saints and Sinners,” “Entourage,” “Southland,” and “House MD.”
In addition to “Out West,” she’s also a series regular in the Comedy Central webisode “Hot Sluts: Rated R!”
In “Out West,” among other figures, Boone portrays Clara Brown, who was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.
She als0 plays Elisabeth Coleman, who was the first African-American woman to become an aviator, and Maria Rita Valdez, who was the first owner of Beverly Hills.
She brings to life Cathay Williams, who dressed as a man to serve in the Buffalo Soldiers.
The play runs through May 9.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Taraji P. Henson Wins Image Award
This week, Taraji P. Henson won an NAACP Image award for her performance in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
The New Orleans Times-Picayune sat down with the actress, who shot the film in New Orleans.
Henson waxed philosophic about her chances of an Oscar win. It turns out her philosophies mesh quite well with those of Queenie, her character in the movie.
“She had a big impact on me,” the actress revealed.
She also filmed “Hurricane Season” in New Orleans with Forest Whitaker, so the paper took time to find out about that as well.
She also joked about the fact that she got the great opportunity to work with Brad Pitt, but not in the way most actresses would like.
Not only did she not play a romantic interest, but any time she touched his character as a child, he was either a puppet or a stand-in, not Pitt himself.
Queenie-and Henson-probably have some words of wisdom to lessen that sting.