Thursday, January 22, 2009

Just saw the entire list of Oscar nominations...

Taranji P. Henson and Viola Davis are both nominated for Best Supporting Actress!

Taranji was nominated for her role in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For those of you not familiar with her work, she played Tyrese's baby mama in "Baby Boy", played one of the female assassins in "Smokin' Aces, and was in "Hair Show", "Hustle & Flow" and "Four Brothers." I also caught her on an episode of "Smart Guy" the other day and she is Jamie Foxx's love interest in the current video that he has out. I enjoy her as an actress, she has a very expressive face and you can tell she really gets into her character.

Viola is nominated for her role in "Doubt". I have always liked this lady as an actress. She has been on Law & Order a few times. She is not very well known but she is a powerful actress. I know she was in "Nights in Rodanthe" with Diane Lane and Richard Gere and it was nice to see her in a film with big name actors. I caught her the other day playing Fantasia's mom in "The Fantasia Barrino Story". She was also in "Antoine Fisher", "Get Rich Or Die Trying" and "Traffic". From looking at her profile on imdb.com, she has done alot of television shows.

Congratulations to both of these ladies on their nominations and Good Luck!

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