The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.
11-18-2021
2h 24m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Writer:
Zach Baylin
Production:
Star Thrower Entertainment, Westbrook, Warner Bros. Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment
Revenue:
$39,400,000
Budget:
$50,000,000
Key Crew
Executive Producer:
Serena Williams
Executive Producer:
Venus Williams
Producer:
Will Smith
Executive Producer:
Jon Mone
Executive Producer:
Lynn Harris
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards.
Smith began his acting career starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). He first gained recognition as part of a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums and the US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime", "Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room" from 1984 to 1994. He released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), and Lost and Found (2005), which contained the US number-one singles "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" and "Wild Wild West". He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances.
Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man in films such as the action film Bad Boys (1995), its sequels Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and the sci-fi comedies Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). After starring in the thrillers Independence Day (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), he received Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his portrayal as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001), and as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). He then starred in a range of commercially successful films, including I, Robot (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Hitch (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Hancock (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Suicide Squad (2016) and Aladdin (2019).
For his portrayal of Richard Williams in the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), Smith won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is an American producer, stage and screen actress, best known for her film roles in "Ray", "Undercover Brother", and on the television series "The Mentalist". She has an BA in African-American Studies from Brown University, and an MFA in Acting from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Known for her work in several film and television productions, she has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy
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Jonathan Edward Bernthal (/ˈbɜːrnθɔːl/; born September 20, 1976) is an American actor. Beginning his career in the early 2000s, he came to prominence for portraying Shane Walsh on the AMChorror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2012; 2018), where he was a starring cast member in the first two seasons. Bernthal achieved further recognition as Frank Castle/The Punisher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Daredevil (2016) and The Punisher (2017–2019), a role he is set to reprise in the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again (2025-present). For his recurring role as Michael Berzatto in the series The Bear (2022–present), Bernthal won a Primetime Emmy Award.
His film roles include Snitch (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Fury (2014), Sicario (2015), The Accountant (2016), Baby Driver (2017), Wind River (2017), Widows (2018), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Those Who Wish Me Dead, King Richard, and The Many Saints of Newark (all 2021), and Origin (2023).
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Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew is an American stage and screen actress, best known for her film roles in Academy Award winning film "King Richard", NAACP Image Award winning film "Dear Mama", and the Sundance Film"Grace". Upcoming, she is attached to a series in development with Jon Bernthal at HBO. She holds a BFA in theatre performance, with studied minors in pre-nursing, gender, sexuality and women’s studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Mikayla is 2020 Special Tony Award recipient for her work with the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Artist Ambassador at the New York Civil Liberties Union. Other credits: The Salvagers (World Premiere), Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous, So You’re Just Sitting with Her While She Bleeds, The Niceties (RTCC Award Winner), Pure (HBO Max), The Great Khan, WET, A Doll’s House: Part 2. Facilitator/Programs Producer: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Lion King, Girl from the North Country, Broadway for Black Lives Matter… Again, What Now: Unplugged, and the Arts in Action Festival.
Anthony Howard 'Tony' Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He's known for his roles as Carl Bruner in Ghost, President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC's drama Scandal, district attorney Nicholas Baxter on Law & Order, Gordon Gray in Oppenheimer, Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), Andrew Prior in Divergent and Insurgent, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, Michael Drucker in The 6th Day, Dr. William 'Will' Rudolph in Kiss the Girls, Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Harold Nixon in Nixon (1995), Fletcher Cole in The Pelican Brief, and the voice of Tarzan in the Disney animated Tarzan.
He made his acting debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and had his breakthrough for starring as Carl Bruner in the fantasy thriller film Ghost (1990), which earned him a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to star as Harold Nixon in the biographical film Nixon (1995), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and as Neil Armstrong in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
He portrayed Paul Cohen in King Richard (2021), which earned him a second nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He starred as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC legal/political drama Scandal (2012–2018) and directed a number of episodes for the series, for which he won a Peabody Award.
He is the son of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and actress Jennifer Howard. His paternal grandparents were film producer and movie studio mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish Jewish immigrant from Warsaw, and actress Frances Howard, who was originally from Nebraska. His maternal grandparents were playwright Sidney Howard and actress Clare Eames. His brother John Goldwyn is a film producer, a former executive of Paramount Pictures and the executive producer of the series Dexter. His brother Peter is also a film producer and the current President of Samuel Goldwyn Films. His half-sister Liz Goldwyn is a filmmaker. His niece is writer/producer Emily Goldwyn (John's daughter - and her mother is actress Colleen Camp).
He has been married to production designer Jane Musky since 1987 and they have two daughters: Anna, a screenwriter, and Tess, an actress.
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Susie Abromeit is mostly known for her breakout role in the hit Netflix/Marvel show Jessica Jones starring alongside Carrie Anne Moss and Krysten Ritter.
Dylan McDermott (born Mark Anthony McDermott; October 26, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama series The Practice, which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
McDermott is also known for his roles in four seasons (first, second, eighth and ninth) of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Murder House, Asylum, Apocalypse, and 1984 portraying Ben Harmon, Johnny Morgan and Bruce, respectively. He also starred as narcotics crime lord Richard Wheatley on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime; Lt. Carter Shaw on the TNT series Dark Blue; in two short-lived CBS dramas, Hostages and Stalker; and in the 1994 remake of the film Miracle on 34th Street. In 2022, he joined FBI: Most Wanted as the new lead, replacing the departing Julian McMahon.
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Judith Chapman (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress, best known for soap opera roles, particularly as Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of Our Lives, and Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless.
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Erin Lynn Cummings is an American actress. She has appeared in the television shows Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Dante's Cove, The Bold and the Beautiful, Cold Case, Dollhouse, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and Detroit 1-8-7.
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Katrina Begin was born on August 10, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Katrina is an actor and writer, known for Single Parents (2018), Good Behavior (2016) and Christmas Break-In (2018).
Kevin Dunn (born August 24, 1956) is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television series since the 1980s.
Noah Bean (born 1978) is an American actor best known for his role as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and as Ryan Fletcher on the 2010 The CW series Nikita as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and his leading performance in the independent film The Pill.
Personal life
Bean was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, Bean attended Pine Point School and The Williams School in Connecticut. An only child, he describes himself as being so quiet and shy that his school would phone his parents asking whether anything was wrong at home: "I was deathly shy and basically scared of people in general." In high school his mother encouraged him to become involved in drama, which he says helped him open up, "I found when I had a script in my hand I could speak."[6] He later attended Boston University's College of Fine Arts before he was offered his first theatre role by director Michael Ritchie.
Bean hails from Mystic, Connecticut, although he has lived and worked in Los Angeles and is currently living in New York. He is friends with actor Seth Gabel and director Jack Bender and also says he has come to be good friends with Damages co-actor and on-screen fiancée Rose Byrne.
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Brad Greenquist (born October 8, 1959) is an American actor.
Greenquist appeared in Pet Sematary, the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name, and in films such as The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. From the 1990s he was seen as a guest star in various American television series, such as Charmed and ER.
Greenquist was director Steven Soderbergh's preferred choice for the role of Graham Dalton in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, after Kyle MacLachlan and Aidan Quinn turned down the role. However, the producers wanted a more well-known actor, so Soderbergh cast James Spader instead.
Greenquist is also known for his four appearances on various iterations of Star Trek. On Star Trek: Voyager, Greenquist appeared in the Season 3 episode "Warlord." He played the thief Krit in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" He also appeared in two separate Star Trek: Enterprise episodes. In the second season episode "Dawn," he played Khata'n Zshaar, and then in the fourth season, he played an unnamed Rigelian kidnapper. Because of these appearances, as well as others in science fiction, fantasy, and horror themed movies and television shows, Greenquist frequently appears on the convention circuit.
Carrie Gibson was born in Washington, DC. She has spent over twenty years creating and touring plays throughout the United States and Canada on diversity and discrimination to educational institutions, major corporations, colleges and government agencies including NASA, the FBI, and the Pentagon. She is the founding Artistic Director of two national touring theater companies. She is a professional actor, singer and voice over artist, and writes screenplays. She also sings in The Sound of Musical, an a cappella group she founded devoted to musical theater songs.
Jonathan Bray was brought into the world on January 4, 1969 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA as Jonathan Richard Bray. He is an entertainer and maker, known for Castle (2009), Mad Men (2007) and The Young and the Restless (1973). He has been hitched to Kristin Bray since September 10, 2005.
Robert Walker Jeffery is an actor and writer based in New York City. Robert will next be seen in the upcoming feature film Your Dying Eyes, directed by Onur Tukel (Catfight, Room 104). He recently landed a supporting role in the Netflix original series Bonding. Robert wrote and stars in the independent half-hour TV pilot Inpatient which premiered in competition at 2019 Seriesfest. Among his several theatre credits in NYC, he played leading roles in The Flea's Waiting for Giovanni and in Love Cures at The Players Theatre. He graduated from Yale College and received his MFA from Columbia University in May 2018.
Gunner Wright is an American film actor known for his role in the film Love and for "portraying" the face and voice of Isaac Clarke in the videogame Dead Space 2. Wright raced motorcycles competitively until the age of 21 when he moved to Southern California. There he began working on Fox Television's Fastlane series and soon began a career in acting. He appeared in director Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar film.
Sean Berube is a multi-talented individual who embarked on an extraordinary journey from law enforcement to the world of entertainment. With a dedicated 30-year career in law enforcement, Sean built a reputation for unwavering commitment and fearlessness.
However, Sean's passion for storytelling and a desire to explore a different path led to a remarkable transformation. Inspired by a love for action-packed movies and a lifelong dream, he decided to transition into the world of acting and stunt work.
Determined and driven, Sean embarked on a new adventure. He trained rigorously, honing his acting skills and mastering the art of stunts. His background in law enforcement brought invaluable discipline and fearlessness to his new career.
With each role and stunt, Sean continued to push the boundaries, captivating audiences with his versatility and daring feats. His unique journey from law enforcement to the world of entertainment serves as a testament to the power of following one's passion and embracing new opportunities.
Jeni Jones is an award-winning actress & director of film & theatre. Her direction of the stage play "Women on the Verge" won the production an NAACP Theatre Award. She also recently directed the award-winning short film: Club Rat$, which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying L.A. Shorts & Chelsea Film Festivals & was used to raise money & awareness for RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). The film has gone on to play numerous festivals & to win multiple awards, including a Best Direction Award. Jeni earned her BA in Theatre Directing & English Literature from Fordham University in NYC & her MFA in Film Directing from CalArts.
Gjee Wade II is an American Actor/ Stuntman, Member of the United States Navy and former K9/SWAT Team Member. As an Actor he has been apart of films released in Sweden, Mexico, U.S. and in the U.K.
Off a dirt road, and formed out of the "Muck". Wade II brings a level of aggression & intensity to each of his characters. Known for his muscular frame, and extensive tattoos . Wade II has made a name for himself in the Industry. Primarily cast as the Villain, due to his cold eyes, muscular physique, and imposing presence. His characteristics are on full display- As Killer Joe Sanders in Fatal Attraction and as Drug Baron Charles "Heavy" Stokes in Evidence of Innocence. Wade II showed the world a different side when he appeared on "Bert the Conqueror" with Talented stand up Comedian/ Host Bert Kreischer. Who referred to Gjee Wade II as 'The Manliest Man in the World' after riding Rip-Ride-Rockit with him at Universal Studios in Orlando.
Wade II has been on National TV several times for Commercials -(Pelaton, EA Sports, Amazon, FL Lottery, Hershey's,) and Television- ( AMC, NBC, FOX, Netflix,Paramount+, BET, Travel Channel) and many more. After deciding to pursue acting with nothing but talent, determination and his quote "If you got IT, it don't matter." Wade II appeared in several independent films and showed his acting skills in a variety of roles. He booked his first major role as Drug Lord Neil Rene on the show FBI: Criminal Pursuit "Taken by Force." The show aired on May 13,2013 on Investigation Discovery (ID).
