Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Mo'Nique wins Globe for 'Precious' role

|
|
 
  
Actress Mo'Nique appears backstage at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles on February 12, 2009. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) 
License photo
Published: Jan. 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Mo'Nique won the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress in a film at a ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night.

She picked up the prize for her portrayal of an abusive mother in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

"First let me say, thank you, God, for this amazing ride that you're allowing me to go on," she tearfully said as she collected her award from presenter Nicole Kidman.

"Everybody kept asking me did I know my speech and I said: 'No, I don't know what I'm going to say because I don't want people to think I just know I done won something. So, no, I don't know.' But I'm shaking and when I tell you all I am in the midst of my dream and when I look into the eyes of the man that I stood next to at 14 years old and I said to him, 'One day, we are going to be stars.' And he said, 'You first.' And we walked this red carpet together tonight. Sidney, I love you more than you will ever know, baby."

Mo'Nique, 42, has been married to Sidney Hicks since 2006.

Topics: Mo'Nique, Nicole Kidman
© 2010 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Movies Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
How to be #1 SUPER-PATRIOT. USA USA USA USA
If you don't like these amusing examples of passive aggressive behavior, than you can kindly piss...
128 drivers fined for driving below speed limit. Obviously not in Florida
Hey dude, it's a holiday. I'm just going to sit around getting sconed
The paperclip was invented in 1899 and has never been improved upon since. It is, quite possibly,...
All whiskey tastes the same, just get the $5 bottle. There, THAT'S how you troll a whiskey thread....