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Jan 07, 2015 · Empire: Created by Lee Daniels, Danny Strong. With Terrence Howard, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Taraji P. Henson. A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.
Sep 27, 2017 · One tactic involves the handsome, 6’5″ tall lawyer Warren Hall continuing to seduce Jamal ( Jussie Smollett ). They bond over music, too. Warren is an aspiring singer — and unbeknownst to ...
Thirsty Rawlings | |
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First Appearance: | Without a Country |
Portrayer: | Andre Royo |
Jeff Kingsley | |
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Occupation(s): | CEO of Empire Entertainment |
Aliases: | Jeffery Kingsley (birth name) |
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Family: | Lucious Lyon (father) Tracey Kingsley (mother) Cookie Lyon (stepmother) Andre Lyon (half-brother) Jamal Lyon (half-brother) Hakeem Lyon (half-brother) |
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Meta Golding | Teri Lyon | Main |
Mario | Devon | Main |
Katlynn Simone | Treasure | Main |
Lucious, the founder and CEO of a successful record label has been diagnosed with ALS. He must choose one of his three sons to take over the company when he dies. Meanwhile, his ex wife and co-founder, Cookie, has been released from prison and wants to reclaim her rightful place in the company. — Jennifer Holmes
Taraji P. Henson said that she would only do the show under the condition that Terrence Howard played the lead male role.
Somewhat stereotypical, and certainly clichéd writing, but captivating, particularly as performed by 2 of my favorite actors, Taraji P. Henson & Terrence Howard, ever since seeing them in one of my favorite gritty, touching movies, Hustle & Flow.
Who in the music industry is Empire based on? Major or Indie ? Jay Z, Puffy Combs, DR Dre, OG Mack Drama?
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Lucious is the ruthless CEO and co-founder of Empire Entertainment. He often manipulates to get what he wants. Lucious is very concerned with preserving his image. He is willing to take down just about anyone to maintain that image, even those closest to him. Lucious was recently diagnosed with ALS and he wants to keep his illness a secret. Lucious is very manipulative. He uses this skill with Cookie, Anika, Andre, Hakeem, and recently, Jamal. He is also extremely narcissistic and selfish. He often calls himself a god. However, deep down, he is no more than a determined and devoted person to his family and his Empire. This is definitely shown with his more recent interactions with Cookie, in particular.
Camilla Marks is Hakeem's love interest in Empire's first season. Hakeem is happy with Camilla in the show's first season. Camilla and Hakeem share their love with the Lyon family at Lucious' mansion when Hakeem delivers the song devoted to their relationship, "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number".
Dwight Walker grew up in the harsh streets of Philadelphia and began selling drugs at the age of nine to support himself , after his father was murdered by the Nation of Islam and his mother was committed for bipolar disorder. Believing that a black kid with the name "Dwight Walker" wouldn't survive living on the streets, he took on the name 'Lucious Lyon', believing that one day that would be the name of an immortal god. He also started rapping sometime after, selling his CDs for $7 out of car trunks, barbershops and at strip clubs. He also met his future ex-wife, Cookie, who helped him sell drugs in order to finance his music career. Cookie is eventually arrested in a drug run and serves seventeen years in prison. Lucious immediately divorces her and raises their three young sons with the help of his best friends Vernon Turner and Cookie's cousin, Bunkie. Some time later, he met Billy Beretti, the famously unorthodox head of Creedmoor Records, and with Creedmoor, Lucious spawned multi-platinum hits such as Deuce Deuce, 2-1-5 or Die, and That's What the DJ Spins, the latter song coming out in 2002. However, by 2003, Lucious had a very bitter and public falling out with Beretti over royalties and creative control, and left Creedmoor to build his own vanity label, a label that eventually became the company known as Empire Entertainment today.
Cookie Lyon is Lucious' wife and the mother of his three sons. Lucious has put Cookie through the absolute most! When Cookie gets locked up he doesn't visit her. As a result the former couple's youngest son Hakeem was unable to build a relationship with his mother.
Lucious is Jamal's father. Of all his sons and maybe even compared to him, Jamal has the most talent which he refuses to acknowledge due to his loathing of Jamal's homosexuality. Lucious is embarrassed by Jamal as he views homosexuality as a choice but also a sign of weakness. He pays for everything Jamal owns threatening to cut him off if he is ever to go public with his sexuality. At the end of season 1 Lucious finally accepts Jamal's sexuality and made him his successor.
Hakeem Lyon is Lucious' youngest son. In the show's first season Hakeem is signed to Empire, often complaining about the amount of attention Jamal's career receives. Although Hakeem is immature Lucious sees himself in Hakeem. Jamal and Lucious didn't get along with each other at the time because of his sexuality and Andre has a health condition that reminds Lucious of his mother's disorder. After his attempts at a hostile takeover fail, Hakeem teams up with Cookie to help her create Lyon Dynasty. This hurts Lucious who attempts to persuade Hakeem to return to Empire on multiple occasions throughout the show's second season.
Freda Gatz is a rapper Lucious signs to Gutter Life Records. Freda and Lucious team up on the song Boom Boom Boom Boom which received an ASA nomination for Song of the Year. Initially, Lucious has a difficult time attempting to lure Freda off the streets. When Lucious and Thirsty visit the rapper's hood they witness her nearly shoot an opposing rapper in a freestyle battle. Lucious is eventually able to convince the young artist that life on the streets is too dangerous.
Hill became best known, and to an even greater degree than from his role in Mission: Impossible, as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series Law & Order, a part that he played for 10 seasons, from 1990 to 2000. Hill's character was loosely modeled on the real former district attorney of New York, Robert Morgenthau, and Morgenthau reportedly was a fan of the character. Hill admitted that he found the character of Adam Schiff the hardest role he ever had because of all the legal jargon he had to learn. "It's like acting in a second language," said Hill. Hill added that he agreed with the show's philosophy, saying that "there's a certain positive statement in this show. So much is negative today. The positive must be stated to rescue us from pandemonium. To me it lies in that principle: law and order." Hill earned an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1999 for his work on "Law & Order".
In 1947, Hill joined Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris, among others, as one of the 50 applicants (out of about 700 interviewed) to be accepted by the newly created Actors Studio.
Hill made his film debut in 1950 in A Lady Without Passport. He then re-enlisted in the Navy in 1952 for two years and, when he completed his service, resumed his acting in earnest. Strasberg later said, "Steven Hill is considered one of the finest actors America has ever produced." When he was starting out as an actor, Hill sought out roles that had a social purpose. "Later, I learned that show business is about entertaining," he said. "So, I've had to reconcile my idealistic feelings with reality."
TV's Golden Age. Main article: Golden Age of Television. Hill was particularly busy in the so-called " Golden Age " of live TV drama, appearing in such offerings as The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1960, where he portrayed Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Hill was the original leader of the Impossible Missions Force, Dan Briggs, in the series Mission: Impossible beginning in 1966. The phrase "Good morning, Mr. Briggs..." was a fixture early in each episode, where a sound or film recording he retrieved detailed the task he must accomplish. However, he was replaced in the show in 1967 after the end of the first season. As one of the few Orthodox Jewish actors working in Hollywood, he made it clear in advance of production that he was not able to work on the Sabbath (i.e., sundown Friday to dusk Saturday), and that he would leave the set every Friday before sundown. However, despite Hill's advance warnings, the show's producers were unprepared for his rigid adherence to the Sabbath, and on at least one occasion, Hill left the set while an episode was still in the midst of filming. The producers used a number of ways of reducing the role of Hill's character, Dan Briggs, whereby he would only obtain and hand out the mission details at the start of certain episodes, being unable to take further part in the mission as he was known to people they would encounter (used at least three times), or Briggs would need to don a disguise and another actor would then play his role incognito until the conclusion of the mission (and episode) when Briggs would peel off a face mask. On other occasions, Briggs was waiting to pick up the team at the end. Usually, Martin Landau 's character (Rollin Hand) took over as the team leader for missions in Briggs' absence, Landau being initially a "special guest star" for the first season, not even included in the show's original opening credits.
Hill and his first wife, Selma Stern, were married in 1951 and had four children before divorcing in 1964. Hill married his second wife, Rachel Schenker, in 1967 and they had five children. He resided in Monsey, New York for many years. One of Hill's sons, Yehoshua Hill, is a rabbi, and known as "Rebbee Hill".
As if Lucious (Terrence Howard) and Cookie's (Taraji P. Henson) relationship wasn't dramatic enough, the Lyon matriarch added more fuel to the fire on Wednesday night's episode, forming her own record label, Lyon Dynasty, and she took youngest son Hakeem (Bryshere Gray) with her. With Hakeem and Cookie on one side of the music rivalry, ...
But it's never off the table, as Empire is going to go after Lyon Dynasty in every possible way. Back to Hakeem's romance, Becky G guest starred as Valentina, a fiery singer who auditions for the girl group, and then hooks up with Hakeem in the bathtub. He's back in the tub!
Tiana is family now -- she's music family. She's in Cookie's world, Cookie is very devoted to her and she and Hakeem seem to me to have maybe a little flirtiness, but it's almost a sibling relationship. Her drama will come into play, but she's a part of their world and their dynamic.
By the end of this episode, Andre just doesn't have the heart for it, so Andre jumps ship and Cookie and Hakeem are left with one another, which is a whole new relationship in the world of "Empire." It's two people who struggled to even find a relationship in the first season are now partners. They are mother and son who have mother/son issues yet to resolve, and now they're also business partners going up against the massively successful Empire.
No. It's a story that really gets resolved in the episode. His medication was being withheld, it was captive by the prosecutor and once his new lawyer, Thirsty, ultimately manages to get Lucious' meds restored, he's fine. This is a health maintenance issue for Lucious.
Historically speaking, the term "character actor" has been applied to career supporting players who best serve a story by disappearing into virtually any role and making a fully three-dimensional figure of them. And if you're at all familiar with the decades-spanning career of Danny Huston, then you already know that the term "character actor" was basically invented for him. If you're not, then we'd recommend you sit down and immediately watch The Proposition, Children of Men, The Constant Gardener, 30 Days of Night , Wonder Woman, seasons three and four of American Horror Story , and the first two seasons of HBO's Succession.
On the show, she plays Monica Dutton, wife to Luke Grimes' Kayce Dutton — a status that's more than a little complicated due to her direct relations to ancestors and elders of the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. Fans of Yellowstone will need no more backstory than that, as the Broken Rock Res shares a border with the Dutton Yellowstone Ranch, and it's regularly in direct conflict with John Dutton and his clan about who rightfully owns the land that said ranch occupies.
Kevin Costner is a Hollywood legend. Okay, so if there is one name on this list that you know — and really should know — it's that of Kevin Costner. He is, after all, one of the most respected and revered actors in Hollywood, and has seen boundless success on both sides of the camera over his near four-decade career.
Luke Grimes. On Yellowstone, you know him as Dutton Ranch foreman, devoted father, and ex-Navy SEAL Kayce, but in reality, he's another one of those perpetually "on the fringe of a breakout performers" who too often find themselves relegated to the role of side character.
For fans of 1999's acerbic Best Picture winner American Beauty, Wes Bentley certainly needs no introduction as he's all but instantly recognizable as the drug dealing, plastic bag-adoring, would-be filmmaker Ricky Fitts.
Played by Cole Hauser with a visceral air of stoic, introverted intensity, Wheeler is a survivor of childhood abuse who put a bullet in his own father after the ruthless drunk took the lives of the youngster's mother and brother. Trauma like that obviously left the young Rip with swathe of unchecked emotional issues — issues that the Duttons have made ample use of after adopting Rip and bringing him into the fold.
When it comes to Yellowstone 's formidable foes, few have proven quite as driven or as ruthless as Neal McDonough's Malcolm Beck. Though Beck featured in just six of the series' 19 episodes, the character (along with his brother, Teal) has cast quite a long shadow over the narrative, involving himself in the matters relating to both the Yellowstone Ranch and the casino planned by Thomas Rainwater and Dan Jenkins. Point of fact, Beck emerged as the series' true big bad in the second season, and after a couple of particularly brutal messages passed between John Dutton and the Beck brothers, the Duttons ultimately put matters to bed in true Wild West fashion in Yellowstone 's second season finale.