Hidden Figures

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Ali

  • Moonlight
    In Mahershala Ali

    Henson) in the movie Hidden Figures (2016). He later received a second Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in Green Book (2018), the story of an unlikely friendship between an African American classical pianist and the working-class bouncer he hires to drive him on a tour of…

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Costner

  • Kevin Costner
    In Kevin Costner: Open Range, Hidden Figures, and Molly’s Game

    …he appeared in the acclaimed Hidden Figures, about three real-life African American women who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the early years of the American space program. In the biopic Molly’s Game (2017), Costner played the estranged father of Molly Bloom, who became famous when…

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Henson

  • Taraji P. Henson
    In Taraji P. Henson

    In Hidden Figures (2016) Henson was cast as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who played a key role at NASA in the 1960s. She then starred in the thrillers Proud Mary, portraying a hit woman, and Tyler Perry’s Acrimony (both 2018), in which she appeared as a…

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Jackson

Johnson

  • Katherine Johnson
    In Katherine Johnson

    A film based on the book was also released in 2016. Johnson’s memoir, My Remarkable Journey (2021; written with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore), was published posthumously.

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Monáe

  • Janelle Monáe
    In Janelle Monáe: Acting career

    …also appeared in the film Hidden Figures (2016), playing Mary Jackson, who in 1958 became the first African American female engineer to work at NASA. Other film credits include Harriet (2019), a biopic about Harriet Tubman, a leading abolitionist who helped dozens of enslaved people escape to freedom in the…

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Parsons

  • Jim Parsons
    In Jim Parsons

    Wish I Was Here (2014); Hidden Figures (2016), in which he played a NASA engineer; and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile and Evil (2019), about serial killer Ted Bundy.

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Powell

  • Glen Powell
    In Glen Powell: Gaining attention in supporting roles

    …the Academy Award-nominated biographical drama Hidden Figures, as astronaut John Glenn, and in Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age comedy Everybody Wants Some!!, as a college baseball player. Roles in 2017 included a sergeant alongside Nicholas Hoult’s Private Matt Ocre, who doubts his role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in Sand Castle,…

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Spencer

  • Octavia Spencer
    In Octavia Spencer

    … in the acclaimed 2016 film Hidden Figures, about three real-life African American women who worked at the U.S. space agency in the early years of the American space program. Her credits from 2017 included the family drama Gifted and the fairy tale The Shape of Water, in which she played…

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Vaughan

Williams

  • Pharrell Williams
    In Pharrell Williams: Happy, G I R L, and other music projects

    …the score for the movie Hidden Figures (2016), which garnered them Grammy and Golden Globe nominations. He was also a producer on the film. In 2017 he wrote and performed the songs in Despicable Me 3 (2017). In addition, he reunited with his band N.E.R.D. for the explicitly political album…

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