1. Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress, singer, and television personality.
54 Facts About Keke Palmer
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Keke Palmer has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Keke Palmer rose to prominence on Nickelodeon, playing the title character in the sitcom True Jackson, VP, providing the voice of Aisha in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club, and headlining the television film Rags.
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Keke Palmer transitioned to mainstream roles with the VH1 biographical film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, and afterwards made her Broadway debut as Ella in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.
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Keke Palmer has since starred in the Fox satirical horror series Scream Queens, the Epix drama series Berlin Station, and the slasher series Scream.
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Keke Palmer released her second book, Master of Me, a hybrid memoir and self-help manual, in 2024.
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Lauren Keyana Keke Palmer was born on August 26,1993, in Harvey, Illinois, and was raised in nearby Robbins, Illinois.
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Keke Palmer's father, who is a Catholic deacon, works for a polyurethane company, and her mother is a high school teacher who works with autistic children.
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Keke Palmer first sang in a church and performed at a stage show at a Chicago tourist destination.
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In 2004, Keke Palmer gained her first film role in Barbershop 2: Back in Business.
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In 2006, Keke Palmer had her acting breakthrough starring in the film Akeelah and the Bee, playing the titular Akeelah, a bright 11-year-old who comes from a poor neighborhood and competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times wrote that Keke Palmer "makes an appealing heroine".
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Keke Palmer had a supporting role in the 2006 film Madea's Family Reunion.
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Keke Palmer starred in two television programs Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Just Jordan.
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Keke Palmer released her debut album So Uncool on September 18,2007.
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In 2008, Keke Palmer began her starring role as the title character in Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.
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Keke Palmer wrote and performed the theme song for the series.
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Keke Palmer earned $20,000 per episode of True Jackson, VP, which made her the fourth-highest-paid child star on television.
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Keke Palmer played the lead role in the 2008 film The Longshots.
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Keke Palmer debuted as the voice of Aisha in Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club.
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Keke Palmer received an NAACP Image Award nomination for her voiceover work.
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In 2012, Keke Palmer starred in the film Joyful Noise, released in January 2012.
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Keke Palmer produced and starred in Rags, a television musical film, as well as voiced Peaches in Ice Age: Continental Drift.
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In July 2012, Keke Palmer released the single "You Got Me" featuring Kevin McCall.
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Keke Palmer released a self-titled mixtape Keke Palmer on October 1,2012.
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In 2013, Keke Palmer portrayed Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas in the TLC biopic, CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, which aired in October on VH1.
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That same year, Palmer hosted a daytime talk show on BET titled Just Keke.
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In September 2014, Keke Palmer became the first African American to star as the title character in the musical Cinderella on Broadway.
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Keke Palmer performed her final show during the closing night of the show's run on January 4,2015.
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Later that year, Keke Palmer announced that she had signed with Island Records.
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In January 2016, Keke Palmer starred as Marty Maraschino in the television special Grease: Live.
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In 2017, Keke Palmer released her memoir, I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice.
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Keke Palmer joined the slasher television series Scream as a series regular in its third season, portraying a character named Kym Johnson, which premiered on July 8,2019.
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Keke Palmer sang the song "Giants" as part of a virtual group named True Damage, in which she voices a character named Senna, in the video game League of Legends for the 2019 World Championship.
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Strahan, Sara and Keke Palmer ended unexpectedly in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic ended live studio programming through the industry, and ABC decided to shift the timeslot towards news.
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Keke Palmer later received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host alongside Haines and Strahan.
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That same year, Keke Palmer began starring in a web television comedy series titled Turnt Up with the Taylors, in which she portrays all of the characters.
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Keke Palmer released an extended play titled Virgo Tendencies, Pt.
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Later in the same year, Keke Palmer briefly hosted a reboot of the classic 90's MTV dating show Singled Out with Joel Kim Booster as her co-host for the short-lived online streaming service network Quibi.
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In 2022, Keke Palmer starred in Alice, directed by Krystin Ver Linden, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
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Keke Palmer voiced the character of Izzy Hawthorne in the Pixar animated film Lightyear, a spinoff of the Toy Story film series.
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On February 9,2023, it was announced that Keke Palmer was set to star alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in the David O Russell film Super Toys.
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In June 2023, it was announced Keke Palmer had been invited to join The Academy as an actor.
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Keke Palmer starred in Usher's music video for his single "Boyfriend", which was released on August 16,2023.
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In June 2024, Keke Palmer started a girl group called DivaGurl; similar to The Pussycat Dolls, where Nicole Scherzinger is the lead singer, Keke Palmer is the lead singer of DivaGurl.
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In 2025, Keke Palmer co-headlined the film One of Them Days with SZA and received widespread critical acclaim.
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Keke Palmer is a supporter of Urban Farming and the Girl Scouts.
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Keke Palmer has worked with the YWCA and Saving Our Daughters.
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Keke Palmer is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Keke Palmer has amblyopia, and has dealt with polycystic ovary syndrome for much of her life.
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Keke Palmer spoke publicly about her turbulent relationship with singer Trey Songz after he allegedly tricked her into being in a music video while at a party in 2017.
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Keke Palmer accused the singer of "sexual intimidation," disclosing that she hid in a closet to avoid being filmed and berated by Songz, only to later realize that he and his friends had recorded her without prior knowledge or consent.
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In June 2021, Keke Palmer began dating fitness instructor Darius Jackson.
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Keke Palmer dropped the requests in May 2024 and their domestic violence restraining order hearing was canceled.