Jennifer Hudson

Described as

American singer, actress, model and spokesperson

Other names

Jennifer Kate Hudson, J.Hud

Born

September 12, 1981 · 4 references

Born in

Chicago · 1 reference

Name at birth

Jennifer Kate Hudson

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

actor · 2 references; musician · 1 reference; singer-songwriter; spokesperson · 3 references; artist · 2 references; film actor; voice actor · 1 reference; singer · 1 reference

Education

Dunbar Vocational High School · 1 reference; Langston University

Genre

rhythm and blues; contemporary R&B · 1 reference; pop music · 3 references; soul · 3 references

Instrument

voice; piano

Record label

Arista Records; J Records; Jive Records; RCA Records

Awards

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (2007) · 1 reference; BET Award for Best New Artist (2007); Soul Train Music Award for Sammy Davis, Jr. – Entertainer of the Year (2007); NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (2007); BET Award for Best Actor & Actress (2007); Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (2007); Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (2006); Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (2006); Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (2006); BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (2007); Grammy Award for Best R&B Album (2008); NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group (2009); NAACP Image Award for Outstanding New Artist (2009); NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album (2 times) (2009, 2012); NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video (2012)

Religion

Baptists

Lived in

Englewood

Website

https://jenniferhudsononline.com/

Wikipedias with a page

70

Wikidata item Q192410 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q192410), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.

Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer and actress. Having received numerous accolades for her work in music, film, television, and theater, Hudson became the youngest woman and third African-American recipient of all four major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) in 2022. She was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.
Hudson rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of the reality series American Idol, wherein she placed seventh. She signed with Arista Records to release her self-titled debut studio album (2008), which peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and won Best R&B Album at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. Her second and third studio albums, I Remember Me (2011) and JHUD (2014), both peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200; the latter was released by RCA Records. She signed with Interscope Records to release her fourth album, The Gift of Love (2024), her first solo project in a decade.
She made her film debut as Effie White in the musical Dreamgirls (2006), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and became the youngest African-American recipient of the award. She has since portrayed Aretha Franklin in the musical biopic Respect (2021) and acted in films such as Sex and the City (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Winnie Mandela (2011), Black Nativity (2013), Sing (2016), Cats (2019), and Goat (2026). She also has appeared in shows such as Smash (2012), Empire (2015) and Confirmation (2016).
On stage, she acted in the Broadway musical revival The Color Purple (2015) and won the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer of A Strange Loop (2022). Hudson has served as a coach on both the British and the American versions of the reality series The Voice from 2017 to 2019, and became the first female coach to lead a winning team on the former. In 2022, her talk show, The Jennifer Hudson Show, premiered.

Born, in its opening lines

September 12, 1981

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