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Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol, coming in seventh place. She made her film debut in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She won a Grammy Award for her eponymous debut album, Jennifer Hudson, which was released in 2008 on Arista Records and was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 800,000 copies in the US; sales exceeded 1 million copies worldwide. Additionally, it spawned the hit single Spotlight. Her second album, I Remember Me, was released in March 2011, and reached number two on the Billboard 200, selling 165,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was certified gold by the RIAA, for shipping over 500,000 copies in the US.
In late 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed in a shooting, Hudson stepped out of the limelight for three months. Hudson resumed her public appearances in 2009, and has since performed at the Super Bowl XLIII, the Grammy Awards, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Hudson has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invited her to appear with him at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performed at the White House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" event. Her vocal range is mezzo-soprano. Hudson has sold 1,280,000 albums and 2,237,000 tracks in the United States as of February 2012.
Actors: Martin Sheen (actor), Tom Nowicki (actor), Valerie Perrine (actress), Gerrit Graham (actor), Rae Dawn Chong (actress), James Van Patten (producer), Daryl Anderson (actor), Charlie John (miscellaneous crew), David Campling (editor), Lee H. Katzin (director), Vincent Van Patten (writer), Vincent Van Patten (actor), Vincent Van Patten (writer), Vincent Van Patten (producer), Josue Aguilar (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis and contracts Nick to discourage him. Nick begins to do that but after an episode with his old flame, Jennifer, and after seeing the kid's determination he decides to teach him all the tricks, both physical and psychological, of the trade. The two battle the kids of a famous coach, unfair refs., injuries, travel all over the southern US, while Nick tries to woo his love back, finally to reach the big championship tennis match where all is resolved in dramatic fashion.
Keywords: bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, bonding, coach, competition, hit-in-the-crotch, independent-film, tennis, tied-to-a-bedActors: Harry Wüstenhagen (actor), Peter Yeldham (writer), Herbert Herrmann (actor), Alfons Höckmann (actor), Donald Churchill (writer), Ursula Lyn (writer), Ilona Wiedem (actress), Ingrid Braut (actress), Nina Adler (writer), Gilla Gotthardt (actress), Ursula Bredin (actress), Horst Heinze (director),
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