Alicia Keys Information
Section: Alicia's in tv and movies

Alicia will be a real movie star very soon, we just need to wait a while! Before now, she appeared in two movies already. Choose the title to read more about it.

Lena Horne (biopic movie)

Alicia is playing Lena Horne
Release Date: ?
Genre:
Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast:
Filming Locations:

Comments: Filming is to begin in 2008.


The Secret Life of Bees

Alicia is playing one of three sisters
Release Date: 2009
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast:Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, Sophie Okonedo
Filming Locations: North Carolina

Plot Outline: With pieces of her past all jumbled up in her head, young Lily Owens seizes an opportunity to leave behind her father and their South Carolina peach farm. Traveling with her nanny, Rosaleen, Lily encounters the Boatwrights, a trio of beekeeping sisters, who fold the girl into their strange, secret world.

Comments: The story takes place in the American South of the 1960s, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. The novel spent two years on the bestseller list of the New York Times. Filming is to begin in January 2008 in North Carolina.



"Elmo's Christmas Countdown" Tv

Alicia is playing herself
Original Air Date: 23 December 2007
Genre: Family, Music, Animation, Comedy
Directed by: Gary Halvorson

Plot Outline: Sesame Street characters help Elmo count down the days leading up to Christmas.

Comments: Alicia and Elmo are singing 'Do you hear what I hear'.



"Cane" Tv Series

Alicia is playing herself, episode 'One Man Is an Island'
Original Air Date: 6 November 2007
Genre: Drama
Directed by: Alex Zakrzewski

Plot Outline: This soapy drama tells the story of two families, the Duques and the Samuels, in the rum and sugar business. This series explores the rivalry between the two families as well as the power struggles within the individual families.



"The Nanny Diaries"

Alicia is playing Lynette (Scarlett's best friend)
Relase Date: 2007
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy, Chris Evans
Filming Locations: Manhattan, Queens in NYC

Plot Outline: A college student (Johansson) goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, her studies, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

Comments: This movie is a satirical comedy based on the New York Times bestselling book written by former nannies Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. The movie begins filming in April 2006 in New York City.


"Smokin' Aces"

Alicia is playing diva assassin Georgia Sykes
Release date: 2 March 2007
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Common, Ray Liotta
Shooting location: Stateline, NV, South Lake Tahoe, Cave Rock Park, Los Angeles

Plot Outline: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven)decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.

Synopsis:
Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a Vegas card sharp cum gangster and former member of the La Cosa Nostra (LCN), one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States. In exchange for a vanishing act with Witness Protection, Israel (who is currently hiding out in the penthouse of The Nomad Casino in Lake Tahoe with his posse of bodyguards and hookers), has agreed to testify against his former mentor, Primo Sparanzza, and the LCN.

When the terminally ill Sparazza takes out a $1 million contract on Israel's life, word quickly spreads through the underground crime world. The catch: Sparazza wants Israel's heart. FBI agents Richard Messner (Ryan Reynolds) and Donald Carruthers (Ray Liotta) learn that Sparazza has hired "a specialist" to do the job and that rogue LCN members Serna and Padiche are also recruiting someone to take Israel out. Realizing that it is only a matter of time before the rest of the world is hipped to Israel's whereabouts and seeks to cash in on the contract, FBI director Stanley Locke (Andy Garcia) dispatches Messner and Carruthers to Lake Tahoe to secure their key witness.

Simultaneously, bail bondsman Jack Dupree (Ben Affleck) and ex-cops Hollis Elmore (Martin Henderson) and Pete Deeks (Pete Berg) are hired by Israel's lawyers - who were left holding the bag when Israel skipped bail - and sent to Tahoe to pick him up and return him to Vegas.Meanwhile, Serna and Padiche's recruits: diva assassins GeorgiaSykes (Alicia Keys) and Sharice Watters (Taraji Henson), master of disguise: Lazlo Soot, torture extremist: Pasquale Acosta and neo-Nazis: The Tremor Brothers all make their descent on Lake Tahoe with the same intention - take out Israel by any means necessary.

Chaos ensues as hit men and FBI converge on the penthouse of The Nomad - bullets fly, loyalties shift and lives end - and shocking secrets are revealed involving FBI cover-ups, hidden motives and true identities.


"The Backyardigans" Tv Series

Alicia's voice - Mommy Martian in episode "Mission to Mars"
Original Air Date: 9 October 2006
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Action
Created by: Janice Burgess
Official site: proceed

Plot Outline: Nick Jr.'s animated musical adventure series about five high-spirited preschool friends who rely on their vivid imaginations to embark on amazing, epic adventures. In every episode, the backyard transforms into a new fantastic, photoreal landscape that serves as the backdrop for completely original, story-driven musicals. Broadway-caliber music spanning a variety of genres and cutting-edge 3D dance choreography propel the stories forward. The series will inspire children to sing and dance along with these lovable characters and stretch their imaginations as they climb up mountains, slide down glaciers and sail across oceans.

Comment: Alicia is singing "Everything's boinga here". Her niece was able to be the voice of the little teeny alien.



"Sesame Street" Tv Series

Alicia is playing herself
Original Air Date: 9 May 2005
Genre: Family, Music, Animation, Comedy
Created by: Joan Ganz Cooney
Official site: proceed

Plot Outline: On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, both human and puppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games and songs.



"American Dreams" Tv Series

Alicia is playing singer Fontella Bass in episode: 2.6 "Rescue Me"
Original Air Date: 2 November 2003
Genre: Drama, Music

Tagline: A time when the American Dream was alive. And one family was living that Dream.



"The Cosby Show" Tv Series

Alicia is playing Ruthie's friend Maria in episode: 1.22 "Slumber Party"
Original Air Date: 28 March 1985
Genre: Comedy Family

Plot Summary: Long-running popular comedy television series about the Huxtable family. Doctor Heathcliff Huxtable and Clair Huxtable, a happily married couple, are raising their children (Sondra, Denise, Theodore, Vanessa, and Rudy).





Not in the production yet:
"Compositions in Black and White"

Alicia is playing Philippa Schuyler
Date: 2007 ?
Genre: Drama, Biography