Black Nativity

… (2012), Betty and Coretta (2013), Black Nativity (2013), and Mudbound (2017). For her work in the latter movie, a drama about racism in 1940s Mississippi, Blige earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. In addition, “Mighty River,” which she cowrote and sang for the film’s soundtrack, received an…

…mother in the film adaptation Black Nativity (2013), based on the stage musical by Langston Hughes; as a woman whose daughter is killed in a gang shooting in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq (2015); and as Angela Wright, a woman who claimed to have been sexually harassed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice…

…starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play. In 2018 he appeared in the independent film Monster, based on an acclaimed novel by Walter Dean Myers.