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Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson ( Keke Palmer ), an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee , her mother ( Angela Bassett ), her schoolmates, and her coach, Dr. Joshua Larabee ( Laurence Fishburne ).
Akeelah and the Bee, which came out in 2006, when she was 12, was her breakout role. Costarring with Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, she played a student from a dysfunctional family who ...
Akeelah and the Bee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2006 film of the same name released by Lionsgate Records in a deal with BMG's RED Distribution on April 4, 2006. [1] The album which consisted of 16 tracks has a variety of genres, including pop , R&B and gospel .
J.R. Villarreal is an American actor, producer, and second-line director, best known for his roles as Javier in 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee, Black Scorpion on the Disney Channel action-comedy series Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion, and Tio Tonio on Netflix's On My Block-spinoff series Freeridge.
“After Akeelah and the Bee, they didn’t think it was good for me to play a drug dealer,” Palmer told the outlet of how her parents, Sharon and Larry Palmer, approached that opportunity.
Actor Keke Palmer, of 'Akeelah and the Bee' and 'Nope' fame, used to let other people control her story. No longer, as she explains in her new memoir 'Master of Me.'
In 2006, Palmer had her acting breakthrough starring in the film Akeelah and the Bee, playing the titular Akeelah, a bright 11-year-old who comes from a poor neighborhood and competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. [17] Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times wrote that Palmer "makes an appealing heroine". [18]
That all changed when the two "Akeelah and the Bee" co-stars reunited for the first time in 16 years in a video for Vanity Fair, released in December 2022.