‘Black-ish’ Star Tracee Ellis Ross Talks Emmys, Getting Back to Work and Her Big-Screen Singing Debut (Watch)

Tracee Ellis Ross is taking on an iconic sitcom. The 47-year-old actress took to Instagram over the weekend to announce that she's participating in an all-Black rendition of , which will air on Zoom Tuesday, Sept.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt’s been 25 years since John Leguizamo, Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes starred in the drag queen comedy “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.”The actors were lauded back in the day because it was considered courageous for cisgender straight men to play out and proud gay queens.Leguizamo now says if the film were made today, casting would look a lot different.“I hope we’ve evolved from that,” Leguizamo says during a Zoom

 Tracee Ellis Ross  wants to make sure her message as a “Black beauty entrepreneur and advocate” is widely spread. Her experiences growing motivated her to make a difference in the beauty industry.

Tracee Ellis Ross is reflecting on her experiences

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRamón Rodríguez hasn’t exactly been taking it easy during quarantine. In addition to directing “Unity,” a short featuring two dancers in Los Angeles during the pandemic, the actor is putting the finishing touches on his script for a Latinx superhero movie and developing “Man Child,” a film he co-wrote with Rosie Perez.

Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross has praised the decision by several NBA teams to strike over the Wisconsin police shooting of Jacob Blake earlier this week. The Milwaukee Bucks, an NBA team located around an hour outside of Kenosha, where Blake was shot, never appeared on the court for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic Wednesday night.

Actress Tracee Ellis Ross recently opened up about being a Black Hollywood icon in a moving interview with Kerry Washington for ELLE magazine.The Black-ish star said,"It takes a lot of courage to advocate for yourself. As a woman, and as a Black woman, advocating for yourself is actually a form of resistance." Tracee Ellis Ross understands the difficulties of advocating for oneself as a marginalized person in a predominantly white, male industry.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPaul Mescal isn’t sure what he’ll wear to the virtual Emmys.“I’m definitely going to be informal on the bottom — not that anyone is ever going to see it,” the “Normal People” star says on Thursday’s episode of Variety and iHeart’s podcast The Big Ticket from his home in London.Mescal is up for an Emmy for his work as Connell in the Hulu coming-of-age drama.

Tracee Ellis Ross is speaking out following the shooting of Jacob Blake. The 47-year-old actress appeared on Wednesday's episode of and reacted to professional athletes protesting their upcoming games due to Blake's shooting.Blake, a 29-year-old Wisconsin man, was shot in the back multiple times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. The family's attorney stated on Tuesday that doctors believe Blake will be left paralyzed by the incident.«I say bravo.

Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka After taking a brief hiatus, Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast is back, and what better way to return than with Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross?Ross has played Rainbow (aka Bow), the matriarch of the Johnson family on Black-ish for six seasons — and an upcoming seventh. The role has earned her four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series — and that includes this year.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThings are getting even sweeter between Selena Gomez and Blackpink.After collaborating on the single “Ice Cream” from the K-pop group’s upcoming debut studio album,  Gomez is marking the occasion by creating a new flavor of — what else? — ice cream.Serendipity’s new line of ice cream will release “Cookies & Cream Remix” on Aug. 28, the same day that the single drops.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWhen the decision came down that the Democratic National Convention was going to be a first-time virtual event and no longer a live spectacle in Milwaukee, Wis., producer Ricky Kirshner and director Glenn Weiss were only sure about one thing.“The first thing we said was, ‘It’s not going to be a giant Zoom call,’” Kirshner told Variety in a joint interview with Weiss just two days after the convention came to a close.

Tracee Ellis Ross had one major request for her character on .

Tracee Ellis Ross is determined to change the perception on TV that only women do chores around the house.The star, who appears as Rainbow Johnson in hit ABC show Black-ish, which tackles issues affecting the Black community, told the Los Angeles Times’ Can’t Stop Watching podcast viewers won’t see her character doing “lady chores” all the time.“What I did speak up about from the beginning was, ‘Why am I carrying laundry?’ ‘Why am I the person in the kitchen cooking right now, when this has

Tracee Ellis Ross, star of Black-ish and Girlfriends, hosts night two of the Democratic National Convention. In her opening remarks, the actress said tonight's program is "all about leadership" and mused on the historic nature of Kamala Harris's nomination for vice president.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDylan McDermott has been busy during quarantine. When he’s not hanging out with his kids — like watching “The Umbrella Academy” with his 14-year-old daughter Charlotte — he has been working on a memoir.“It changed me actually,” McDermott, 58, says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “So I’m really happy I did it.