7 Movies and TV Shows Janelle Monáe Blessed With Her Magical Presence

This Academy Award-winning film features Monáe as Teresa, the girlfriend of a drug dealer named Juan (Mahershala Ali), who becomes a father figure to a young boy named Chiron (Alex Hibbert) as he deals with bullying and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Hidden Figures stars Janelle Monáe as real-life trailblazer Mary Jackson — NASA's first Black female engineer — who helps the US make major breakthroughs in the Space Race against the Soviet Union.

After surviving a brutal assault and hate crime, artist Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) copes with his memory and motor loss by creating and photographing a model world named Marwen. In the imaginary locale, a group of figurine women based on actual people in Mark's life protect him from Nazi soldiers. Monáe portrays Julie, a social worker who encourages Mark in real-world rehab and becomes G.I. Julie, a veteran soldier who helps Mark, aka Cap'n Hogie, in Marwen.

Moxy (Kelly Clarkson) is a chipper resident of Uglyville — a place for dolls too flawed to give to children — who dreams of being in the "Big World" and finding a child companion. She and her friends set out to fulfil a meaningful purpose, ending up at the Institute of Perfection where they're ostracized for being different. Monáe's character, Mandy, is one of the few kindhearted dolls in the flawless town who helps Moxy and the Uglyville outcasts.

In this biographical film about Harriet Tubman, Monáe portrays Marie Buchanon, the daughter of a freed slave and owner of a boarding house in Philadelphia where she befriends Harriet (Cynthia Erivo).

Season two of Amazon Prime Video's Homecoming shows Monáe stepping into the protagonist role, taking over from Julia Roberts. She plays an amnesiac named Jackie who awakens in a rowboat and embarks on a mission to figure out her identity and piece together information about her former life.