Xosha Roquemore
Also Known As: Xosha Kai Roquemore
Biography: Xosha Kai Roquemore (/ˈzoʊʃə ˈroʊkmɔːr/ ZOH-shə ROHK-mor; born December 11, 1984) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jo Ann in Precious and Tamra in The Mindy Project. Roquemore was born in 1984 in Los Angeles and is named after the Xhosa people of South Africa. She started acting when she joined The Amazing Grace Conservatory in ninth grade. After graduating from high school, she moved to New York City and graduated from the Tisch program at New York University. Roquemore starred in her first major film as Jo Ann in Precious. In 2013, she was cast in a recurring role on Kirstie, based on her work in the series pilot. Her role, however, was recast after she was added as a series regular to The Mindy Project after a three-episode guest star stint. Roquemore was in a relationship with actor LaKeith Stanfield in August 2015. In March 2017, the couple announced Roquemore's pregnancy. Roquemore and Stanfield broke up after the birth of their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xosha Roquemore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: December 11, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
TMDb-Id: 109565
IMDb-Id: nm2837872
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Known For
Captain America: Brave New World
Overview: After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-12
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Family Switch
Overview: When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Precious
Overview: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Let's Get Merried
Overview: A hard-partying, down-on-her-luck, holiday-hater decides to get married at a Christmas-themed adventure park to a man she hasn't met.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-13
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Price Check
Overview: A middle aged, middle class, former music industry executive with a stay-at-home wife and son toils away at a supermarket chain. When a new high energy boss enters the company, she increases his fortunes and responsibilities while also creating tension in both his professional and personal life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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Rivers Wash Over Me
Overview: After his mother dies, Sequan, a sensitive teenager from Brooklyn, moves in with relatives living in a small town plagued with secrets hidden deep within its lush, rural Alabama terrain. Sequan finds refuge in a friendship with a troubled girl who astutely hones in on his true sexuality and introduces him to her cute brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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G.B.F.
Overview: The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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The Butler
Overview: A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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Who Invited Charlie?
Overview: Phil Schreiber, a self-involved hedge fund manager living in New York City, escapes to the Hamptons with his wife and son at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Making an already fraught situation worse is the surprise arrival of Phil’s college roommate Charlie, an exemplar of Falstaffian excess. As Charlie makes himself at home, secrets are revealed that threaten to do more harm than the virus they’re all trying to avoid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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First Time Female Director
Overview: Writer Sam is thrust into the role of director at a local theater after her predecessor gets fired. Barely making it through each rehearsal, Sam struggles to wrangle her eclectic cast while trying different tactics to make her play a success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-12
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Mississippi Requiem
Overview: A collection of four short films based on stories written by William Faulkner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-17
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Identical
Overview: Identical twins are born, one is good and one is evil. They need each-other to exist, but they deeply resent the others existence. They both fall in love with the same woman. A love triangle forms which leads to murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-01
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All Nighter
Overview: When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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9 Rides
Overview: An Uber driver gets word that his fiancé might be cheating on him on New Years Eve and proceeds to give nine different groups of people rides and they influence his decision on how he handles the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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The Disaster Artist
Overview: An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-12
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Brian Banks
Overview: An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-09
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Let Clay Be Clay
Overview: A mourning mother stays present in the lives of the kids (now adults) who she believes are responsible for her daughter's murder 20 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Space Jam: A New Legacy
Overview: When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized champions on the court. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-08
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