Picture it, its 1999, Monique had just broken into TV on the little sought network UPN, with The Parkers. The show would remain on the air for some six years and gave UPN some of its most devoted fans, and best ratings. After the show ended Monique went on to host the BET awards several times, stared in the cult-movie Soul Plane, her very own movie Phat Girls, as well as Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. Still, Mo'Nique had yet to truly make it big, she wasn't quite a household name to the mainstream and her movie roles were less than stellar, but that would all change in 2009.
Enter Precious
The role of a life time came. Mo'Nique had been cast in a movie with an already strong cast, script and director, called Precious and by the time the movie had been shown to audiences it was being critically acclaimed; and the best kind of buzz followed, Oscar buzz. All the buzz would prove to be more than just hype when in 2010, at the 82nd annul Academy Awards Mo'Nique won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress; a career changer. Or not. In 2011, after just two seasons her late-night tv show was cancelled. What seemed like a promising start in a man dominated genre of television, failed. Her and Chelsea Handler with her Chelsea Lately late-night talk show, were taking on the boys; but seems only Chelsea was a formidable foe.
Since Precious Mo'Nique hasn't appeared in a single movie, stared in another TV show, or gotten any major endorsements. Shes disappeared. When Jamie Fox won his Oscar in 2004 his career Sky rocketed to the A-List, smash hit movies, number one albums, the works. So why did Mo'Nique quietly fade away. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for that, but its kind of perplexing to have not seen much of a newly crowned Academy Award winner pop in a movie or three post victory.
WTF happened to her?
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