- Born
- Birth nameMonique Angela Imes
- Nickname
- Mo
- Height1.69 m
- Mo'Nique received a standing ovation when she stepped on stage for the first time in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, giving her confidence to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. After numerous stand-up performances, she took a leap forward with one of the starring roles in Les Parker (1999).
Mo'Nique's huge international breakthrough came with her performance in the independent feature film Precious (2009), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and over 30 other major awards for best acting including the most important ones like the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, the Independent Spirit Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award, the BAFTA Film Award and Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize.- IMDb mini biography by: Adrian Tofei / edited by Hans Delbruck
- SpousesSidney Hicks(May 20, 2006 - present) (2 children)Mark Jackson(December 25, 1997 - April 3, 2001) (divorced, 2 children)
- ParentsSteven ImesAlice Imes
- Brunette hair
- Baby catchphrase
- The outfit she wore to the Oscars in 2010, the year she won for Best Supporting Actress, was inspired by what Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar winner, wore to the Oscar ceremony in 1940, the year in which she also won for Best Supporting Actress.
- Is one of 15 actresses to win the Critic's Choice Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar in the same year, winning for Precious (2009). The others to achieve this are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich, seule contre tous (2000), Renée Zellweger for Retour à Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for La Couleur des sentiments (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014), Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014), Allison Janney for Moi, Tonya (2017) and Frances McDormand for 3 Billboards : Les Panneaux de la vengeance (2017).
- Brother Gerald Imes publicly apologized to her on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) for molesting his sister when they were children. He revealed during his appearance that he himself was molested and was drinking alcohol and using drugs by the time he was 11 and that he started to molest Mo'Nique when he was 13 and she was 7/8 for about a year.
- Has 4 sons: Mark Eric Jackson Jr. (b. October 1990) & Shalon Calvin Jackson (b. June 1992) with ex-husband, Mark Jackson and David & Jonathan Hicks (b. October 3, 2005) with husband, Sidney Hicks.
- Gave birth to twin boys (her third and fourth child) at age 37, Jonathan Hicks and David Hicks on October 3, 2005. Children's father is her boyfriend [now second husband], Sidney Hicks.
- I don't think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet and he is weak.
- I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics. I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it. Ricky Anderson, our attorney of Anderson & Smith, thank you for your hard work. My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what's popular in order to do what's right. And baby, you were so right. God bless us all. [Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for Precious (2009)]
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