Her feature film directorial debut came with the drama One Night in Miami. She has also directed the music video for the 2010 song " Finding My Way Back" by Jaheim. King has directed episodes for several television shows, including Scandal in 20 and This Is Us in 2017.
Her other television roles include the drama series The Leftovers (2015–2017) and the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2013–2019). King has also played supporting roles in the films Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), Ray (2004), A Cinderella Story (2004), as well as in the comedies Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). King won her fourth Primetime Emmy Award for starring in the dystopian superhero limited series Watchmen (2019). For her performance, she won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in Barry Jenkins's film adaptation of the James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). From 2015 to 2017, King starred in the ABC anthology series American Crime, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and in 2018, she starred in the Netflix miniseries Seven Seconds, for which she won her third Primetime Emmy Award. Her subsequent roles included the film Friday (1995), the animated series The Boondocks (2005–2014), and the crime television series Southland (2009–2013). King first gained attention for playing Brenda Jenkins in the television series 227 (1985–1990). In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Peabody Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, the most Primetime Emmy wins for an African-American performer. “Investigation is still ongoing,” she added.Regina Rene King (born January 15, 1971) is an American actress and director. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed Idowu’s arrest. Whenever he did it, he would clean up the mess and warn me not to tell anybody.”Ī police source said the suspect also allegedly raped Victoria’s elder sister, who attended a college of education in Lagos State. My father deflowered me several months ago, and he had been raping me since then. Punch Metro learnt that Victoria told the police in her statement that her father deflowered her. I thought she was mentally unstable, until the man was arrested some days ago.” She said, “The girl came to me on the day she was fleeing home and said her father had been raping her. Speaking with Punch Metro, a neighbour, who did not want his name in print, said the victim had also reported to her while fleeing the house. She claimed the father started from the beginning of the year.” He would thereafter warn her not to tell anyone. She said anytime the family slept at night, the father would sneak into her room and rape her.
“The victim said she could not bear it anymore as her father had raped her several times in the year. I reported the case at the police station in Badagry immediately and the man was arrested. The aunt thereafter contacted our organisation. He said, “The victim fled to a relative, who is her aunt in the Ikotun area. It was learnt that Victoria, who had been kept in government’s custody, was r*ped while her mother was bedridden.Ī social worker, identified only as Ibrahim, who reported the matter to the police, said the victim fled to her aunt in the Ikotun area. Punch Metro reports that Idowu was arrested on Thursday, June 23, by the Badagry Police Division. The suspect was said to have travelled for a prayer meeting on the day his daughter fled home. It was learnt that the matter got to the attention of the police after the victim, Victoria (pseudonym), packed from her father’s apartment to put up with a family friend in the Ikotun area. He has however been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for commiting the act.Īccording to Punch Metro, the man committed the crime at the Aradagun, Badagry area of Lagos. A man identified as one Timothy Idowu, has been found out to have r*ped his own 15-year-old daughter.