The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we don’t know the women who were doing the groundwork, it’s not the full truth.” ...
When Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (who has been acting professionally since her debut as Ariel in 1995’s Broadway revival of “The ...
Ellis-Taylor and the crafts team talk creating her indelible performance as an anguished grandmother in RaMell Ross' ...
WGN Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards sits down with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to talk about new movie “Nickel Boys.” ...
Taylor, a Mississippi native, talks about her work on "Nickel Boys," says story isn't just history for living men, ...
You come here and see this view and you think, Yeah, this is my life,” says Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. “Then you have to say, No, it’s not really.” For the average anxious person, overhearing such a ...
Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor considers Mississippi her ... She plays Hattie in the movie, which is based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning novel with the same name.
In “Nickel Boys” the real-life horrors of a Florida reformatory school become the stuff of a masterpiece directed by RaMell ...
This film is basically a drama about the writing of a non-fiction book. In the film, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who while navigating deep ...
Nickel Boys” — 4 stars A movie shot in first person sounds like a gimmick. Part of the magic of filmed storytelling is ...
Director RaMell Ross' movie ‘Nickel Boys’ was a chance for Mississippi native Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to honor her Southern roots Taylor Hill/WireImage Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is much more at home ...