Gabourey Sidibe
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 26: Gabourey Sidibe attends the TAA Awards & Celebration during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the The Box on April 26, 2012 in New York City.
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This is very special to me, to be in this room among students who are deciding to do this, to add to the world in an artful way ... I want to thank the students for choosing to do this, because I didn’t think I could do it. I am in awe of you. You make me wrong, and I thank you so much for making me wrong.
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Why Gabourey Sidibe Once Beat Up A Classmate
Mess with Gabourey Sidibe and she will whoop your ass. A former classmate of the actress learned that precious lesson the hard way after he constantly picked on the feisty actress while they were in high school. Gabby told America’s The Conservation With from iLuLu Online Read more »
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Gabourey Sidibe beat up bully in junior high
The 29 year old overcame much adversity to land an Academy Award nomination in 2009 for her turn in Precious and she's since become one of the most popular rising stars in Hollywood. But the plus-size African-American actress admits life hasn't always be from OK! Magazine Read more »
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Amanda de Cadenet: 'The Conversation': Gabourey Sidibe
Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience. Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight and you have a lot to navigate. What I loved about Gabby is that despite all of t from The Huffington Post Read more »
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PHOTO CALL: Sanaa Lathan, Gabourey Sidibe, Hank Aaron and More Visit Broadway's Streetcar Named Desire
Sanaa Lathan, Gabourey Sidibe, Hank Aaron, Holly Robinson Peete and Diahann Carroll are among the celebrities who have paid a visit to Broadway's starry revival of A Streetcar Named Desire in recent weeks. Here is a look backstage: Two-time Golden Globe from Playbill Read more »
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Event: Mo'Nique, Rodney Perry, and Tone-X on Sunday, May 13 at Chicago Theatre
By many accounts, first-time actress Gabourey Sidibe—star of the 2009 drama Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire—was snubbed when she lost the Oscar for Best Actress to The Blind Side’s Sandra Bullock. But it came as little surprise when her c from The A.V. Club Read more »
