Keke Palmer

Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer ( ; born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and television host. She is known for playing both leading and character roles in comedy and drama productions. She has also created and hosts her own podcast. She has received several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, five NAACP Image Awards; along with nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. ''Time'' magazine included her on their list of most influential people in the world in 2019.

Palmer made her acting debut in ''Barbershop 2: Back in Business'' (2004). She later appeared in the television film ''The Wool Cap'' (2004), and had her breakthrough starring in the drama film ''Akeelah and the Bee'' (2006). Her debut studio album, ''So Uncool'', was released in 2007, and she progressed as a child actress with roles in ''Madea's Family Reunion'' (2006), ''Jump In!'' (2007), ''The Longshots'' (2008) and ''Shrink'' (2009). She played a number of roles on Nickelodeon, such as the title character in the sitcom ''True Jackson, VP'' (2008–2011), providing the voice of Aisha in the Nickelodeon revival of ''Winx Club'' (2011–2014), and headlining the television film ''Rags'' (2012).

Palmer made her transition to mature roles with the VH1 biographical film ''CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story'' (2013). From 2014 to 2015 she starred as Ella in ''Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella'' on Broadway. She has since starred in television series such as the Fox satirical horror series ''Scream Queens'' (2015–2016), the Epix drama series ''Berlin Station'' (2017–2019), the slasher series ''Scream'' (2019), and the Facebook Watch series ''Turnt Up with the Taylors'' (2021) for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award. She also starred in films, including ''Animal'' (2014), ''Pimp'' (2018), ''Hustlers'' (2019), and Jordan Peele's ''Nope'' (2022).

Since ''So Uncool'', Palmer has released three extended plays: ''Lauren'' (2016), ''Virgo Tendencies, Pt. 1'' (2019) and ''Virgo Tendencies, Pt. 2'' (2020). She hosted the talk show ''Just Keke'' (2014) and co-hosted the talk show ''Strahan, Sara & Keke'' (2019–2020), the latter of which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. Provided by Wikipedia