Actress Gabourey Sidibe, also known as Gabby, made her debut in her first film role as Claireece "Precious" Jones, in the 2009 award winning film `` Precious ``- a film Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2829737/bio
Gabourey Sidibe was spotted on the Oscars 2010 red carpet in a blue dress by Marchesa.
Gabourey Sidibe has won some great film awards such as the Satellite Awards for "Outstanding New Talent" and the Florida Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress".http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/gabourey-sidibe/894004/main She has also been nominated for numerous awards , some of which are the 2010 Golden Globe Awards for "Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama"] and the 82nd Academy Awards(Oscar 2010 awards) for "Actress in a Leading Role".http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/#nominee_601 http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/gabourey-sidibe/894004/main.
Other nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards (Oscar 2010 awards) for Actress in a Leading Role includes; Meryl Streep (‘’Julie & Julia’’), Carey Mulligan (‘’An Education’’), Sandra Bullock (‘’The Blind Side’’) and Helen Mirren (‘’The Last Station’’).Gabby is the eight African-American actress to be nominated for Oscars Best Actress award. The other seven African-American actresses to be nominated for Oscars Best Actress award are; Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Whoopi Goldberg,Cicely Tyson, Angela Bassett , Halle Berry and Diana Ross.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2829737/bio
Gabourey Sidibe, nominated for Best Actress in a Leading role for the 2010 Oscars says the event feels just like "the prom". Excited about the evening, Sidibe says the night is "awesome". She was wearing a blue dress with embroidered accents.
Gabourey Sidibe on Being Nominated
In this YouTube video you would see Scott Feinberg in an interview with Gabourey Sidibe, after she was nominated, for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards for Actress in a Leading Role. She talked about her life, career and her aspirations.
Life and Career
Gabourey Sidibe was born on May 6, 1983, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is a gospel singer and a street performer, while her father, Ibnou Sidibe, is a Senegalese taxi driver Gabourey parents split when she was a child, so she was raised by her mother. http://newsblaze.com/story/20091109180950kamw.nb/topstory.html
Gabourey Sidibe attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College and was pursuing a degree in psychology at Mercy College before she became famous. Gabby became a part of the ‘’Precious’’ film cast after a friend informed her of the film’s audition and urged her to go for the casting. At the casting, she impressed the producers and was given the role of Claireece "Precious" Jones, a traumatized pregnant, sixteen year old, single teenage mom, that was raped by her father and continually maltreated by her mother.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2829737/bio Due to her outstanding performance in ‘’Precious’’, Gabourey Sidibe has been giving another role in a new movie titled‘’ Yelling to the Sky’’ http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/59419/.
Quote
"I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life. I love the way I look. I’m fine with it. And if my body changes, I’ll be fine with that." http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/59419/
