Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, a force in Hollywood known for her powerful performances and unwavering dedication to storytelling, was recognized with the Excellence in the Arts Award at the 2025 ABFF Honors.

Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor are joining director Vicky Wight’s next film. The film is described as “a cross-cultural story about loss, healing, and the strangers who refuse to let you ...

Rosetta Tharpe was a trailblazing Black musician who found fame early on as a gospel artist before shifting to rock and roll and inspiring several future legends. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has been tapped ...

Ellis-Taylor will write and Jagger will produce the movie about Tharpe, known as “the godmother of rock and roll,” a trailblazing gospel guitarist and singer. Deadline brings word that Ellis-Taylor is ...

Actor-activist Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has graced the silver and small screens on a number of iconic period projects, from The Color Purple to Origin, and most recently Nickel Boys, the Oscar-nominated ...

Apple TV has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming series Lucky, starring Anya Taylor-Joy alongside Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey and more Clifton ...

*Aunjanue Ellis has joined the cast of the upcoming feature film “Pimp,” a drama from writer-director Christine Crokos that looks at life for women on the streets of New York amidst the hustles and ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Russell Hornsby are among the newly announced cast members joining Taraji P. Henson and Joey Bada$$ in Netflix’s ‘Tis So Sweet, the Tasha Smith-directed feature produced by ...

*Aunjanue Ellis (“Quantico”) has been cast in Barry Jenkins’ next film “If Beale Street Could Talk,” while “Masters of Sex” alum Jocko Sims joins Fox’s upcoming medical drama series “The Resident,” ...

LOS ANGELES, California -- After a more subdued Oscars show last year, Hollywood is looking to party this weekend - back on the red carpet and back in person. It should be 'something to have fun with, ...

Live Nation Productions has announced a powerful new project honoring one of music’s greatest unsung pioneers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock and Roll.” The feature film will be penned ...

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