bell hooks
Actor
Biography
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
Filmography
Black Is… Black Ain’t
as Self 1995
Hillbilly
as Self 2018
My Feminism
as Self 1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self 2004
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
as Self 1998
Becoming bell hooks
as Self 2024
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
as Self 1997