Mo’Nique On Ellen Show

Mo’Nique visits the Ellen Show on November 3, 2009

About Mo’Nique

Mo’Nique (born Monique Imes; December 11, 1967) is an American actress, comedian, and talk show host.

She is best known for the role of Nicole “Nikki” Parker on the UPN television series The Parkers. The show ran from 1999 to 2004. Mo’Nique was subsequently featured on a number of leading stand-up venues, including stints on Showtime at the Apollo, Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam, and Thank God You’re Here.

She was also named hostess of Showtime at the Apollo, and is currently the hostess and executive producer of Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance, a beauty pageant for plus-sized women, on the Oxygen cable network. She hosted the first season of Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School on VH1, where she crowned Saaphyri as the winner.

Her 2007 documentary I Coulda Been Your Cellmate!, focuses on women who are incarcerated. Mo’Nique touches on the common factors that bring many women into the penal system while interviewing women one-on-one. In the interviews, she does not shy away from the facts of what happened or excuse the actions of the inmates but she attempts to help the women see the worth they still hold. The documentary was in conjunction with the filming of a comedy special at the Ohio Reformatory for Women also known as The Farm. In 2007, she had a guest starring role on the hit television series, Ugly Betty as L’Amanda, Mode’s weekend security guard.

Mo’Nique stars in her own late-night talk show called The Mo’Nique Show. Taped in Atlanta, the show premiered October 5, 2009 on BET.

Mo’Nique is the author of the best-selling book Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World. She also released a 2006 cookbook called Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.