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In working alongside costume designer Mirren Gordon-Crozier on Apple TV+’s miniseries Lessons in Chemistry, actress Aja Naomi King was impressed by the extent to which each costume brought forward was “grounded in this value system of who these people truly are.” Offering a fresh take on midcentury…

In Lessons in Chemistry, Aja Naomi King is Harriet Sloane, a 1950s lawyer and mother who lives across the street from the protagonist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson). In Bonnie Garmus' original novel of the same name, Harriet was an older white woman who helped Elizabeth to raise her baby. But for the Apple…

Aja Naomi King received her first Emmy nomination this morning for her role as Harriet Sloane in the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry. “This is one of the most amazing days of my life,” says King. “Sometimes there are just things that come your way that utterly blow your mind because…

EXCLUSIVE: How To Get Away With Murder alumna Aja Naomi King is returning to broadcast as a lead opposite Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC's drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio…

Lessons in Chemistry star and executive producer Brie Larson, showrunner and executive producer Lee Eisenberg, and show’s co-stars Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King were at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the Apple TV+ limited drama series and the potential for a second season. Based…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter, I Know This Much I True), Aja Naomi King (Sylvie's Love, How to Get Away with Murder), Manny Jacinto (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Good Place) and newcomers Amari Price and Aiden Price will star alongside Nnamdi Asomugha in his feature directorial debut, The Knif…

EXCLUSIVE: LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King will bring the words of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s upcoming fiction novel My Monticello to life. The two actors are among a slate of artists who will lend their voices to the audiobook, from Macmillan and Henry Holt and Company. Additional narrators are Ngozi Anyanwu, January…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) is returning for the second season of hit QCode podcast Blackout, with Aja Naomi King (How To Get Away With Murder) joining the cast. Season two of the apocalyptic thriller will be released early this summer with Malek reprising his role of Simon Itani, a…

EXCLUSIVE: I May Destroy You and The Maze Runner actor Aml Ameen has commenced production on his directorial debut feature, Boxing Day, a UK based Christmas romantic comedy in which he’ll also star. Joining him on the call sheet are How to Get Away with Murder alum Aja Naomi King, Leigh-Anne Pinnock of the British…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's How to Get Away With Murder Season 4 finale "Nobody Else is Dying" on ABC. A car crash, a stolen baby, a long-lost son, a break-up, deportation, criminal justice reform, and, obviously, murder – the Season 4 finale of How to Get Away With Murder had it all…

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has begun on Pembridge Pictures and Umedia’s A Girl From Mogadishu starring How To Get Away With Murder‘s Aja Naomi King. The female empowerment film is a true story based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who — having escaped war-torn Somalia — emerged as one of the world's foremost…

EXCLUSIVE: The Birth of a Nation actress Aja Naomi King has been cast in The Weinstein Company film Untouchable, joining Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman, and Genevieve Angelson. Helmed by Neil Burger, the pic is a remake of the smash 2011 French film The Intouchables from Eric Toledano and Olivier…