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Monique Angela Hicks Wiki Biography

Monique Angela Imes Hicks, also known as Mo’Nique, was born on 11 December 1967, in Baltimore Maryland, USA. She is an actress and comedian, probably best known for her acclaimed performance in the 2009 movie “Precious”. She was also part of the television show “The Parkers” and has starred in numerous comedy films. Her work in the entertainment industry since the late ’90s has helped raise her net worth.

How rich is Monique? Sources estimate that her net worth is over $13 million as of early 2016, most of it attributed to her work as an actress and comedian. She’s had numerous opportunities working on and off of the screen, and she’s also written a few books that have helped in raising her wealth.

Her comedy and acting career began after she graduated from the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland in 1987. She worked as a customer service representative for a ‘phone company and accidentally discovered her prowess for comedy after her brother dared her to perform at an open mic night in Baltimore. Her first television role came in 1999 when she was cast for the UPN series “The Parkers”. She also went on to perform comedy routines in various television shows like “Showtime at the Apollo”, “Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam”, and “Thank God You’re here”. After “The Parkers” ended in 2004, she found work being a host for various television shows, and she also did documentaries and guest-starred in “Ugly Betty”. She had her own show called “The Mo’Nique Show” which ran from 2009 until 2011.

Along with her television work, she began appearing in films, that helped increase her net worth. She starred in films like “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, “Two Can Play That Game” and “Half Past Dead”. She had a significant role in the 2005 film “Domino” which starred Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke. Her biggest and most notable work came with her role for the movie “Precious” which earned her 30 various awards for her performance, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Awards.

Aside from film and television, she worked on the theater play “The Vagina Monologues”. And she also did a year of radio on a show entitled “Mo’Nique in the Afternoon”. She has authored two books, the first entitled “Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Bigg Girl in a Small Minded World” became a best-seller. The second book was a cookbook called “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted”.

In Monique’s personal life, she was engaged to accountant Kenny Mung but the wedding never eventuated. From 1997-2001 she was married to Mark Jackson and they have a son. In 2005, she gave birth to twin boys and a year after married their father Sidney Hicks. In coverage from the New York Times she mentions that the couple have an open marriage in which she declares it’s more of a relationship that keeps no secrets.

IMDB Wikipedia “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted” (2006) “Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Bigg Girl in a Small Minded World” (2004) $13 Million Academy Award Alice Imes Barbra Streisand BET Comedy Awards (2004) Cable (comics) Catherine the Great David Hicks Deadpool Entertainment Fox Broadcasting Company Gerald Imes Jonathan Hicks Jr. Keira Knightley Mark Jackson Millicent Imes Mo’Nique Kenny Mung Moesha Monique NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Peter III of Russia Primetime Emmy Award Russian Empire Satellite Award Shalon Jackson Sidney Hicks Steve Imes Steven Imes The Parkers Wealth

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Monique Angela Hicks Quotes

• I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics. I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it. Ricky Anderson, our attorney of Anderson & Smith, thank you for your hard work. My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what’s popular in order to do what’s right. And baby, you were so right. God bless us all. [Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for Precious (2009)]
• I don’t think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet and he is weak.

Monique Angela Hicks Important Facts

• Was the 135th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Precious (2009) at The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010) on March 7, 2010.
• Release of her book, “Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World” by Mo’Nique with Sherri A. McGee. [2003]
• Release of her book, “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted” by Mo’Nique with Sherri A. McGee McCovey. [2006]
• Won 30 major awards for her portrayal of Mary in Precious (2009), including all the awards that are considered the biggest (except Cannes). She was also nominated for 5 more awards for the same film.
• Gave birth to twin boys (her third and fourth child) at age 37, Jonathan Hicks and David Hicks on October 3, 2005. Children’s father is her boyfriend [now second husband], Sidney Hicks.
• Has two sons from her first husband Mark Jackson – Shalon Jackson (b.1990) and Mark Jackson, Jr. (b.1992, adopted).
• Brother Gerald Imes publicly apologized to her on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) for molesting his sister when they were children. He revealed during his appearance that he himself was molested and was drinking alcohol and using drugs by the time he was 11 and that he started to molest Mo’Nique when he was 13 and she was 7/8 for about a year.
• Mo’Nique is the fourth talk show host to get an acting Oscar nomination after Oprah Winfrey (Best Supporting Actress; The Color Purple (1985), Whoopi Goldberg (Best Actress; The Color Purple (1985)(Best Supporting Actress; Ghost (1990)) and Greg Kinnear (Best Supporting Actor; As Good as It Gets (1997)).
• The outfit she wore to the Oscars in 2010, the year she won for Best Supporting Actress, was inspired by what Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar winner, wore to the Oscar ceremony in 1940, the year in which she also won for Best Supporting Actress.
• Is one of 6 African-American actresses to win the Oscar in a competitive category. The others in chronological order are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1990), Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball (2001), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011).
• Is one of 13 actresses to win the Critic’s Choice Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar in the same year, winning for Precious (2009). The others to achieve this are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014).
• Sister of Steven Imes, Gerald Imes and Millicent Imes.
• Daughter of Steven Imes Jr. and Alice Imes.
• Mo’ Nique stepped down as co-host of the morning show on WHUR Radio in Washington, DC during the Summer 2002.
• Launched own line of clothing Mo’Nique’s Big Beautiful and Loving It in August 2000. It closed in 2002.

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