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\"rking\"Regina King<\/a> has been one busy actress over the years. And her plate seems completely full now, too.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, she\u2019s provided two voices for Adult Swim\u2019s The Boondocks animated TV shows. Movie roles have included This Christmas, Year of the Dog and the upcoming Living Proof on Lifetime. And then there\u2019s the role in the intense L.A. cop drama Southland, returning to TV on TNT after a quick stint on NBC.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latter that\u2019s brought her to Philadelphia to host a screening party and talk to the press. She considers it a crusade to keep Southland going and gaining an audience, after getting the \u201ctoo edgy\u201d tag on the network. She thinks TNT, with series such as the Ray Romano <\/a>middle age dramedy Men of a Certain Age and Timothy Hutton<\/a>\u2019s thriller Leverage, could be the perfect fit for the impressive ensemble show Southland.<\/p>\n

For the part of Lydia Adams, a detective who tries to balance her demanding job of dealing with Los Angeles\u2019 toughest gangs and caring for her mother, King received a first-hand experience by hanging out with L.A. cops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did the classroom thing,\u201d says King from a Philly hotel during a hectic publicity tour. \u201cI learned the procedures, the dos and don\u2019ts of the trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

King, 39, says the police force loves the show because \u201cit\u2019s been an honest departure all around. Most shows are about the LAPD and corruption, and they have a suspicious reputation. And they believe Southland makes them more human and allows viewers to understand them better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress point to the enormity of an L.A. cop\u2019s job by throwing out this statistic: Manhattan, which is a fraction of the area of Los Angeles, has 18,000 cops, while the City of Angels has only 8,000 police officers.<\/p>\n

In Southland, the top-notch ensemble includes The O.C.\u2019s Ben McKenzie as a rookie cop, Michael Cudlitz (Band of Brothers) as his veteran partner, Tom Everett Scott<\/a> (That Thing You Do!) and Shawn Hatosy<\/a> (Public Enemies) as detective partners, and Arija Bareikis<\/a> (Crossing Jordan) as a female cop with a desire to become a member of the S.W.A.T. team.<\/p>\n

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Southland: The Complete First Season <\/a>(Uncensored)\u00a0is being issued on DVD now, while TNT airs the first seven episodes, followed by the broadcast of the show\u2019s second season. The idea is to familiarize the TNT audience with its myriad of characters and situations, so they can follow them throughout the second season.<\/p>\n

Created by Anne Biderman (who scripted Public Enemies and Primal Fear and worked on NYPD Blue) and produced by John Welles (E.R., The West Wing), Southland is superior to most other TV police stories becomes of its realism and how it delves into the private lives of its principal characters. Here, cops aren\u2019t just heroes or corrupt. They deal with family strife, battle alcoholism, and fight the stress of law enforcement in L.A., where gang violence is rampant on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Some of the material depicted on the show has made a strong impact on King, especially an episode in which a young girl is molested and killed and another in which an innocent person is left in an alleyway for weeks before they are discovered.<\/p>\n

The show hits home particularly for King, who was born and raised in the area, attending Westchester High School and University of Southern California. In the 1980s, she was a child actor who played Marla Gibbs\u2019 daughter on the sitcom 227. After that run, she decided that she didn\u2019t want to act full-time, and had hopes of being a dentist. However, appearing in Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton<\/a>\u2019s 1991 Oscar-nominated debut film, led her back to acting.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and I went to USC together, and we ran into each other on campus,\u201d King says of Singleton. \u201cHe put in the film when I couldn\u2019t get an audition, so I am grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

King also appeared in the filmmaker\u2019s subsequent films Poetic Justice and Higher Learning. She\u2019s also scored other key movie roles: in 1995\u2019s Friday, as Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr.<\/a>\u2019s wife in Jerry Maguire, as Will Smith\u2019s wife in Enemy of the State, and playing the backup singer and mistress to Oscar-winning Jamie Foxx in Ray. In addition, she\u2019s appeared in Daddy Day Care, Miss Congeniality 2, A Cinderella Story and appeared on the TV show 24.<\/p>\n

A single mother with a teenage son, King has also delved into the food industry, owning a restaurant in Los Angeles. Producing movies is yet another endeavor she will tackle, teaming with actress sister Reina King (What\u2019s Happening Now!) to gather an African-American cast for a remake of The Big Chill, Lawrence Kasdan\u2019s 1983 film about the reunion of college friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping control of your own projects makes lots of sense,\u201d says King. \u201cProducing also gives me a chance to mix things up a little more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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