Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. 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. 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. Jennifer Hudson was born on September 12, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois. She enrolled at Langston University but she left after a semester due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather, and signed up at Kennedy-King College. in November 2005, Hudson was cast in the role of Effie White for the film adaptation of the musical Dreamgirls, which also starred Jamie Foxx, BeyoncĂ© Knowles and Eddie Murphy. Hudson has won particular praise for her show-stopping onscreen rendition of the hit song, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”, the signature song of the role, which had earlier been recorded, and had already reached the status of musical standard, because of the definitive performance of Jennifer Holliday.
Jennifer Hudson leads Grammy tributes to Whitney Jennifer Hudson led tributes to Whitney Houston at the Grammy awards last night (12.02.12), performing her hit ‘I Will Always Love You’. Jennifer Huds… [link]























