Mo’Nique Wins Academy Award Best Supporting Actress

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Mo’Nique with husband

Chocolate City congratulations Monique Imes-Jackson, aka Mo'Nique, 42 year-old as the joins the league with three other outstanding African-American Best Supporting Actresses. Mo'Nique is the 16th African American actress to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the 4th to win.

Mo'Nique won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the drama "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire." The comedienne and actress rose to fame in the TV series The Parkers, she also host "The Mo'Nique Show," a late-night talk show on BET. She has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award.

The three previous African-American Best Supporting Actresses:

Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win Best Supporting Actress. She won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Whoopi Goldberg was the second African American to win Best Supporting Actress for playing Oda Mae Brown in Ghost (1990). She had previously been nominated for Best Actress in 1985 for her role as Celie in The Color Purple.

Jennifer Hudson was the third African American to win Best Supporting Actress for her role as Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006).