Ruth Negga

  • EntertainmentYahoo Movies

    National Loving Day: The 'Loving' cast on the film couple's perfect and fateful last name

    Director Jeff Nichols has never had an easier time titling a movie. The filmmaker’s latest project, Loving, follows the real-life couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) whose union led the Supreme Court to strike down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The couple’s last name — which all you law students already know — was, amazingly, Loving.

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  • NewsVariety

    Brad Pitt’s sci-fi movie ‘Ad Astra’ to hit theaters in January 2019

    Brad Pitt co-wrote script to be directed by James Gray ('The Lost City of Z') and to costar Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Jamie Kennedy, Donald Sutherland

  • NewsYahoo Celebrity

    Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Ruth Negga, and Others Attend Alfre Woodard’s Annual ‘Oscar’s Sistahs Soiree’

    For eight years legendary stage and film actress Alfre Woodard has hosted her annual ‘Oscar’s Sistahs Soiree,” a star-studded event held the week before the Oscars that honors and celebrates “African American and Latina [women] who have been nominated for the Oscar in the acting category, and, we say in a perfect world, those who should have been,” Woodard told Variety. The 22 attendees this year, which included Best Supporting Actress nominee Viola Davis, Tracee Ellis Ross, Cynthia Erivo, Rosar

  • EntertainmentKevin Polowy

    How foreign-born 'Loving' stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga united for an important American love story

    The new romantic drama Loving, based on the real-life couple whose 1967 Supreme Court trial Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage, is a quintessential tale of American social justice. “I kept thinking he cast me ’cause he’s just lazy,” the Australian-born Edgerton joked to Yahoo Movies (watch above) about director and Arkansas native Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter), whom the actor had just worked with on the spring release Midnight Special. Edgerton (Warrior, Black Mass) plays Richa

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