Akeelah and the Bee

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KeKe Palmer and Angela Bassett sit together on a couch, smiling and talking, in a scene from the film Akeelah and the Bee. Palmer holds papers while Bassett holds a yellow envelope.

Akeelah and the Bee

film by Atchison [2006]

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Angela Bassett
…starred in the family drama Akeelah and the Bee (2006), portraying the mother of a girl attempting to become a national spelling champion. In the biography Notorious (2009) Bassett played the mother of Christopher Wallace, the rapper better known by the stage name the Notorious B.I.G. In 2008–09 she had…
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…starred in the family drama Akeelah and the Bee (2006), portraying the mother of a girl attempting to become a national spelling champion. In the biography Notorious (2009) Bassett played the mother of Christopher Wallace, the rapper better known by the stage name the Notorious B.I.G. In 2008–09 she had…
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Laurence Fishburne
Film roles
…a national spelling bee in Akeelah and the Bee. Later that year he appeared as a hotel chef in Bobby, a film about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In 2009 he starred in the action thriller Armored, and two years later he portrayed a Centers for Disease Control and…
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…a national spelling bee in Akeelah and the Bee. Later that year he appeared as a hotel chef in Bobby, a film about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In 2009 he starred in the action thriller Armored, and two years later he portrayed a Centers for Disease Control and…
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