Regina Hall is an African-American comedian who is famous for playing the character Brenda Mix in a comedy franchise that parodies all the famous horror films “Scary Movie” and Corett Lipp in a dramatic comedy series about the everyday life of a young lawyer woman, “Ellie MacBeal”.
Biography
The actress was born on December 12, 1970 in the US capital, Washington, in the family of school teacher Ruby Hall and electrical contractor Ody Hall. After graduating from high school, she entered Fordham University in the Bronx, after which she was awarded a bachelor's degree in English. Then, in 1997, she received a master's degree in journalism from New York University. Regina was going to become a journalist and make a brilliant career, but her father's death from a stroke in the first semester made her think about who she really wants to become in life. So she began her career in the entertainment industry, recording the joint track “Interview” with the 1996 Wild Cowboys album with the rapper Sadat X.
In 2004, Regina Hall's mother was diagnosed with scleroderma, since then the actress has been involved in charity work and helps patients with the same rare autoimmune disease. Between filming, twice a week, Hall takes care of the elderly at the Sherman Oaks Nursing Home in California.
At forty years old, after an unsuccessful relationship, she accepted attempts to become a nun, but she was refused because of her too old age. To date, the actress has no children, she is not married and has never been.
Carier start
At the moment, Regina Hall's filmography includes about thirty-six paintings, and everything started with a commercial in which the actress appeared at the age of 26. Her television career began with small roles in the soap opera Endless Love and in the detective television series Undercover Police Officer. This was followed by a debut in the film industry, an episode in the comedy melodrama Schafer about the misadventures of the writer Harper Stewart. This experience made an indelible impression on the actress, because, in fact, she had never been on the set before. Regina met and made friends with colleague Sana Lafan, and together they starred in the sports melodrama Love and Basketball. Then there was a game in the television drama New York Police. And now she has already received the status of a rising star in Black Hollywood.
Success in Scary Movie
A big breakthrough in his career was the work in "Very Scary Movie" in the role of the disgusting, repulsive and sex addicted Brenda. Thirty-year-old Regina Hall, who looked like a teenager in the photo, easily managed to play a school graduate. The first film was so successful that he got four sequels, and Regina entered the main cast of all parts of the franchise.
Movies with Regina Hall
In 2001, the actress managed to get the opportunity to star in the prime time television series, "Ellie McBeal." Initially, the character of the actress, Coretta Lipp appeared only in small episodes, but from the fifth season she became one of the main characters. A year later, Regina Hall starred in the crime drama “Pay Full” directed by Charles Stone III. Then, she appeared in the lead roles in the crime comedy Wanted in Malibu, written by screenwriter and stand-up comedian Jamie Kennedy, in The Royal Redemption, directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd and in the family-run comedy film Honeymoon. Then there were shootings in the thriller “Danica”, in the tragicomedy “The Eldest Son” and in the comedy “First Sunday”. In the dramatic thriller Felix Gary Gray, “Law Abiding Citizen” played the role of Kelly Rice, along with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx.
In 2012, Regina Hall reiterated her first role as Candice Sparks in the comedy-drama film "Best 2" ("Best Men's Holiday"). In the same year, she played Candice Hall in the comedy Think Like a Man based on Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like a Woman: Think Like a Man, and two years later she starred in the sequel to the film.
One of her latest works: George Tillman Jr.’s dramatic film “Hatred that You Generate” (“Hatred and Love”) based on the novel of the same name by Angie Thomas, in which the actress performed the main character’s mother and the comedy “Support the Girls”, in which Regina plays the main character, the head of a roadside cafe with half-naked waitresses. For this work, Regina Hall earned the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress, becoming the first African American to receive such an award.