navigating the industry in Los Angeles often feels “strange,” she tells PEOPLE. “My friend calls it ‘Hollywood hooey.’ ... I want to do my job.” The Color Purple Star Aunjanue Ellis ...

From the outside looking in, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has the kind ... “Nickel Boys” opens in Los Angeles on Dec. 20. Ellis-Taylor, who plays two very different matriarchal characters in the ...

Los Angeles event. It was also a daunting technical and conceptual challenge. “It was all about unlearning everything that we thought we knew about traditional cinema and trying to reach for the ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor wore a daring Balenciaga look to the Los Angeles screening of "Nickel Boys." The actor says her avante-garde red carpet fashion is meant to honor her queerness and challenge ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay and actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor opened up about exploring a wide range of emotions in their newest film, “Origin,” at a screening Saturday in Los Angeles. The pair ...

Aunjanue Ellis photographed for Variety in December 2023 at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles. During the run for “King Richard,” she was used to following what the studio and the film’s star ...

From the outside looking in, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has the kind ... "Nickel Boys" opens in Los Angeles on Dec. 20. Ellis-Taylor, who plays two very different matriarchal characters in the films ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is much more at home in the South than in Hollywood. And that’s not just figurative: Though she’s starred in a slew of critically acclaimed movies, the Oscar nominee has ...