Mo'Nique's Lifestyle & Net Worth 2022 - YouTube

monique angela hicks known professionally  as monique is an american actress stand-up  

comedian television producer author and talk show  host she first gained recognition for her work  

in stand-up comedy debuting as a member of the  queens of comedy monique has received an academy  

award golden globe award bafta award screen actors  guild award and grammy award in 2002 she received  

a grammy award nomination for best comedy album  monique began her transition into mainstream film  

and television having a starring role as nicole  nicki parker in the upn series the parkers from  

1999 to 2004 as well as appearing in fat girls  in 2006 and welcome home roscoe jenkins in 2008.  

in 2009 monique garnered critical acclaim for her  performance in the film precious for which she  

won numerous awards including the academy award  for best supporting actors becoming the fourth  

african-american woman to win the award she has  since hosted the monique show from 2009 to 2011  

and starred as ma rainey in the hbo biopic  bessie in 2015 earning a primetime emmy award  

nomination monique has an estimated net worth  of 14 million us dollars about monique's early  

life monica angela hicks was born on december  11 1967 in baltimore county maryland she's the  

daughter of engineer alice ims and drug counselor  steven ims jr she's the youngest of four children  

monique graduated from milford mill high school  in baltimore county in 1985 and attended morgan  

state university she's a 1987 graduate of the  broadcasting institute of maryland before she was  

an actress monique worked as a customer service  representative at the phone company mci in hunt  

valley maryland she got her start in comedy at the  downtown baltimore comedy factory outlet when her  

brother steve imes dared her to perform at an  open mic night during a 2008 essence magazine  

interview monique revealed that she was sexually  abused by her brother gerald ims from ages 7 to  

11. he went on to sexually abuse another girl and  was sentenced to 12 years in prison after her twin  

boys were born in 2005 monique cut off all contact  with gerald on april 19 2010 gerald imes admitted  

on the oprah winfrey show to sexually abusing her  over several years he also was abused by family  

members and struggled with substance abuse monique  is 5 feet 8 inches tall or 1.75 meters tall  

about monique's personal life monique was  briefly engaged to an accountant named kenny mung  

from 1997 to 2001 she was married to mark jackson  they had a son shalon calvin jackson who was born  

in 1990 and adopted another son mark eric  jackson jr who was born in 1992. monique  

later began a relationship with producer and  actor sydney hicks welcoming twin sons jonathan  

and david hicks in october of 2005 two months  premature in 2006 monique married sydney hicks  

in a new york times profile she mentions that she  and sydney hicks have an open marriage we have an  

agreement that will always be honest and if sex  happens with another person that's not a deal  

breaker for us that's not something where we'll  have to say oh god we've got to go divorce court  

because you cheated on me because we don't cheat  she repeated this view later on the oprah winfrey  

show when she said that in her prior marriages  she was constantly searching for that extra oomph  

monique explained when i said i had an open  marriage people automatically jumped to sex  

they automatically went there but i've been best  friends with my husband since we were 14 years old  

when we say open we're very honest there are  no secrets oftentimes you have people that are  

married but they're strangers and we refuse  to be those people she concluded i've had to  

sneak and i've had to lie and i don't want to do  that anymore but my husband is so awesome and so  

fine and so oh girl no other man can compare  monique reportedly owes 620 000 in back taxes  

and has been hit with liens from the irs and the  georgia department of revenue in 2019 she sued  

netflix for gender and racial discrimination  after the streaming service offered her five  

hundred thousand dollars for a 2018 comedy special  a relatively small amount compared to the massive  

payments comics like amy schumer dave chappelle  and chris rock received for their netflix specials  

netflix attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed  but in july 2020 a judge ruled that it could go  

forward about monique's career monique made  her acting debut as nicole nicki parker on  

a 1999 episode of the upn sitcom moisha and later  that year she began playing the role on upn's the  

parkers which aired 110 episodes for five seasons  she played nikki on three episodes of moesha as  

well as a 2001 episode of abc's the huglies while  starring on the parkers monique voiced bunetta  

on the proud family she co-starred with whoopi  goldberg and danny glover in the television film  

good fences and guest starred on the bernie mac  show in 2005 she hosted and produced monique's fat  

chance a plus size beauty pageant on the oxygen  network and she hosted vh1's flavor of love girls  

charm school in 2007. she has guest starred on  nip and tuck in 2006 the game in 2007 and ugly  

betty in 2007. monique has released several  stand-up comedy specials and documentaries  

including monique one night stand in 2005 monique  behind bars in 2007 and monique and friends  

live from atlanta in 2020 in 2015 monique played  ma rainey in the hbo film bessie earning critical  

acclaim and several award nominations monique's  first film was the 2000 comedy three strikes  

and the following year she appeared in baby boy  and two can play that game as well as the stand-up  

comedy film the queens of comedy in 2004 she  starred in soul plane and played the lead role in  

hair show then appeared in shadowboxer and domino  in 2005. the following year monique lent her voice  

to farce of the penguins and appeared in irish jam  fat girls and beer fest and in 2008 she co-starred  

with martin lawrence cedric the entertainer and  james earl jones and welcome home roscoe jenkins  

in 2009 monique played mary lee johnston in  precious winning the academy award for best  

supporting actress since her award-winning turn  and precious monique has appeared in the film's  

blackbird in 2014 bessie in 2015 interwoven  in 2016 and almost christmas in 2016. monique  

released the books skinny women are evil notes  of a big girl in a small-minded world in 2004  

and skinny cooks can't be trusted in 2006. 2006  about monique's house monique used to rent a 7  

292 square foot home in roswell georgia for  22 thousand dollars per month but in 2011 her  

landlord sued her because she broke her rental  agreement and allegedly owed them 370 thousand  

dollars monique countersued saying that she wanted  out of her lease because the home smelled like dog  

feces and urine and had an overflowing septic tank  and a mold problem the lawsuits were settled for  

an undisclosed sum in 2012 about monique's car  collection monique owns or has owned a bmw m3  

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