Aunjanue Ellis

Richard Williams serves as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

In this poignant drama, a young African-American couple in 1970s Harlem faces a harrowing struggle when the man is wrongfully accused of a crime. The film, directed by Barry Jenkins,…

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia ”Skeeter” Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around ”the help”; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial…