Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
1969 (57 лет)Ellis was born in San Francisco but grew up on her grandmother's farm in Magnolia, Mississippi. She initially attended Tougaloo College before transferring to Brown University, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in African-American studies. While at Brown, she performed in a student play, marking the start of her acting journey. She later honed her craft at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studying under Jim Barnhill and John Emigh. Additionally, she is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
In a 2022 interview, Ellis publicly identified as bisexual. In 2023, she adopted the surname Ellis-Taylor to honor her mother.
The Help
Tate Taylor
Э́мма Сто́ун, Виола Дэвис
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
The Help
Ray
Taylor Hackford
Дже́йми Фокс, Kerry Washington
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
Ray
Justified: City Primeval
Вонди Кертис-Холл, Тимоти Олифант
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens is now based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and wants to do so again.
Justified: City Primeval
Miss Virginia
R.J. Daniel Hanna
Uzo Aduba, Matthew Modine
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Miss Virginia
Men of Honor
George Tillman, Jr.
Роберт Де Ниро, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
Men of Honor
61st Street
Кортни Б. Вэнс, Тосин Коул
Moses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, Moses’ case is taken up by ageing public defender Franklin Roberts, who sees this as his chance to finally challenge the institutional racism at the heart of the judicial system.
61st Street
Of Mind and Music
Richie Adams
Joaquim de Almeida, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Dr. Alvaro Cruz, a neuroscientist, disillusioned by the death of his mother and his inability to help her, finds redemption and reward by helping Una Vida, a jazz singer he discovers performing on the streets of New Orleans. Her health declining and her singing partner and her adopted daughter unable to help, Cruz seeks out her long lost son in an effort to bring resolution to the grief, loss and longing that has overshadowed her hard but beautiful life.
Of Mind and Music
Lovely & Amazing
Nicole Holofcener
Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn
An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.
Lovely & Amazing
