Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play of the...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience...
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Rider Blues" (1925), the blues standard "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927). Rainey also collaborated with Thomas Dorsey, Tampa...
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O-T Fagbenle (category Black British male actors)
would be cast as the lead in their 2016 production of the play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Fagbenle led his cast to win the Olivier Award for best revival...
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Chadwick Boseman (redirect from Black Panther (actor))
act until his death in 2020 from the illness. His final film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim, earning...
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Lincoln (2012), Selma (2014), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2020), The Color Purple (2023) and Sing Sing (2023)...
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August Wilson (section Post–Black Arts Movement)
both of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson was...
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", a 1920s blues song by Ma Rainey, makes obvious allusions to the dance but is not itself dance music. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom...
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in the films Jean of the Joneses (2016), White Boy Rick (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Boogie (2021), and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024). In...
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in a Play for his performance in the 2003 Broadway revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Byrd earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Morris...
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Beale Street Could Talk (2018). He gained acclaim for his roles in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2020), and Rustin (2023). He won the Primetime Emmy...
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performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play and Carl Hancock Rux's...
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housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy...
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final films were Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. For the latter, he was nominated in the Best Actor category at...
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fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo, and starred in the 2020 Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Turman was born in New York...
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south in the drama The Help (2011), and the title role in drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She was also BAFTA-nominated for her roles in the heist...
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for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2020 for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom he received Screen Actors Guild Award and Independent Spirit Award...
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Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern...
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the piano player in the original production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. As a young man, Judd served in the United States Navy. After leaving...
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Actress Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss Elisabeth...
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Sharon D. Clarke (category Black British actresses)
revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Lyttelton Theatre (for example: "Sharon D Clarke is terrific as Ma Rainey, regally imperious" –...
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five times, winning two awards for The English Patient (1996) and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She has also received four nominations for the BAFTA Award...
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adaptation by the Screen Writers Guild for the film version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Ruben Hudson was born in 1956 in Lackawanna, New York, the son...
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Tamara Lawrance (category Black British actresses)
She was then on stage, as Ma Rainey's girlfriend Dussie Mae in the 2016 revival of August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the National Theatre...
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On Broadway, he has performed in Drowning Crow, the revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and the premiere of King Hedley II. Henderson is recognized as...
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the ensemble of Ragtime in 2003. She was cast as Ma Rainey in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2004. In 2004–2005...
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Lucian Msamati (category Black British male actors)
as Toledo in the National Theatre's revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 2016, Antonio Salieri in the National Theatre's revival of Amadeus...
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In Denzel Washington Netflix Pic Adaptation Of August Wilson's 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 2, 2019. Trumbore, Dave (August...
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years later, Jackson returned to Broadway for the premiere of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which ran for 276 performances and was chosen "Best Play" by the...
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beating out expected posthumous nominee Chadwick Boseman (for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); though he was not present when his win was announced, Hopkins...
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