Empire

Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s tawdry Showgirls, starring Elizabeth Berkley as Las Vegas exotic dancer Nomi Malone, is likewise held up as a camp classic. The movie was panned by critics and was a box office flop, but it was later embraced by fans,…

…shows American Horror Story (2015), Empire (2015–16), and Star (2017–18). She developed a modeling competition reality show, The Face, in 2013. Additionally, she was named a contributing editor for the British edition of Vogue in 2017. She received a Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America…

…in the musical TV drama Empire, playing the flashy and fiercely outspoken Loretha (“Cookie”) Lyon. In the premiere episode, Cookie emerges from prison—wearing a white fur coat and a minidress in one of her signature animal prints—having served 17 years for drug trafficking. She returns to her ex-husband and their…

…including an episode (2019) of Empire. In addition, Khan acted on the stage. In 1995 she played Sister Carrie in a London production of the gospel musical Mama I Want To Sing!, and in 2008 she made her Broadway debut, portraying Sofia in The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice…

…The Jamie Foxx Show, and Empire. In 2012 she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Some of her later films include Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) and I’m Glad It’s Christmas (2022).

…(2017–18) of the television series Empire and in the streaming adaptation (2020) of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

…later had recurring roles in Empire and This Is Us; her work in the latter series earned her two Emmy nominations. She was also cast as the title character’s teacher in the TV series David Makes Man (2019– ). In addition, Rashad continued to appear in movies, notably portraying the…

…episodes of such shows as Empire, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and Billions. He cocreated Snowfall (2017– ), which centres on the crack epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.

…2015 in the TV series Empire, and she played Peter Parker’s guardian, Aunt May, in such box-office hits as Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). In 2020 she appeared in Judd Apatow’s dramedy The King of Staten Island.

…(2017–18) in the TV series Empire, and in 2018 he appeared in the movies Black Panther, Sorry to Bother You, and Burden. He then took a starring role in the TV series Godfather of Harlem (2019– ), portraying 1960s crime boss Bumpy Johnson. In 2021 Whitaker was cast as the…