Gabourey Sidibe is an American actress. She has received several accolades for her roles across American film and television, including nominations for an Academy Award (Oscar), a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA), a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAGs). Overall, she has won 16 awards from 44 nominations.
Sidibe is most acclaimed for her debut breakout role at the age of 26 in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009), a drama film about a young woman struggling against poverty and abuse. For Precious, she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and earned Best Actress nominations at the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and SAG Awards. She is the eighth black nominee for the Best Actress Academy Award and, as of 2025, one of fifteen black nominees. She was also nominated for the SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble with the cast of Precious.
Sidibe received further accolades for roles including the comedy drama series The Big C (2010âÂÂ2013), the satirical drama film Seven Psychopaths (2012), the anthology horror series American Horror Story (2013âÂÂ2018) and its sequel American Horror Stories (2022), the comedy series Empire (2015âÂÂ2020), and the horror thriller film Antebellum (2020). She won a Black Reel Award for directing The Tale of Four (2017), a film about four different women with four different paths whose lives interconnect. Her other commercially successful films include the heist comedy Tower Heist (2011) and the romantic comedy Top Five (2014).