Full Name: Jennifer Kate Hudson
Date of Birth: September 12, 1981
Profession: Singer & Actress
Jennifer Hudson was born on September 12, 1981 in the USA. Darnell Donerson (November 7, 1950 – October 24, 2008) is the third and youngest child of Samuel Simpson. Whitney Houston cites Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle as her greatest influence and inspiration overall. At the age of 7, she began her performance, singing with the church choir and performing community theater with the help of her grandmother, Julia. He enrolled at Langston University, but left after a semester due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather and enrolled at Kennedy-King College.
Hudson signed her first recording contract with Righteous Records, an independent Chicago-based record label, in January 2002. She terminated her five-year contract with Righteous Records in 2004 to appear on American Idol. On April 6, 2004, he was eliminated in the “Top 7” show two weeks later after Barry Manilow’s “Weekend in New England” performance. Hudson made one of her record debut in Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, in the duet “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be”.
In September 2006, Hudson performed the song “Over It” live on Fox Chicago Morning News. In the interview, he stated that the song will be included in his debut album, due in early 2007; But that was before signing with a record label. He signed a record deal with Arista Records in November 2006.
In May 2008, he played Louise, Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant, in the feature film Sex and the City. Filming ended in December 2007 and the movie was released on May 30, 2008. [39] Hudson made her third film in The Secret Life of Bees in October 2008, playing Rosaleen, the mother figure of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning). The film also stars Oscar-nominated Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo, as well as Alicia Keys. The film was released on October 17, 2008 and grossed over $ 37 million at the box office. The film won two People’s Choice Awards in the categories Favorite Drama Movie and Favorite Independent Movie in January 2009.
Hudson started dating James Payton in 1999 when she was 18 years old. They broke up in late 2007. He later met David Otunga, a professional wrestler and Harvard Law graduate at WWE, and the couple got engaged in September 2008. Hudson gave birth to her first child, son David Daniel Otunga Jr., in August 2009. Hudson and Otunga separated in November 2017. On October 24, 2008, Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, and her brother, Jason, 29, were found shot dead in the donerson in Chicago, in the house Hudson shared with her older sister Julia. His 7-year-old nephew reported to the police that his nephew Julian King had disappeared. Three days later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the body found on the West Side of Chicago was his nephew. At autopsy, it was revealed that he died from “multiple gunshot wounds”. Police charged Julia’s 27-year-old husband, William Balfour, with three charges of first-degree murder and a household rape. He was found guilty of all seven charges against him in July 2012 and sentenced to three life sentences without parole. As of 2011, Hudson lives in Burr Ridge, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.
Eye color
Dark brown
Hair color
Black
Height
Height: 5ft 9inc (175 Cm)
Weight
Weight: 145lb (65 Kg)
Body Measurements
Body Measurements: 37-26-36 inches (94-66-91.5 Cm)
Sign
Spike
Title Image Credit: David Torcivia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
