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    The unique hodgepodge that is Keke Palmer

    Keke Palmer could teach a class on how to stay a rising star for two decades. At age 29, she's already a seasoned veteran. Since her breakthrough role in 2006's "Akeelah and the Bee," Palmer has become a multihyphenate machine whose endeavors in entertainment span movies, TV, Broadway, music, books, podcasts and the internet (as an unwitting viral star) — the list could go on, and if you know ...
    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Dec 13, 2022 3 minutes
    Director Doug Atchison's drama "Akeelah and the Bee" starring Angela Bassett and Keke Palmer, released on April 28, 2006.

    Keke Palmer could teach a class on how to stay a rising star for two decades.

    At age 29, she's already a seasoned veteran. Since her breakthrough role in 2006's "Akeelah and the Bee," Palmer has become a multihyphenate machine whose endeavors in entertainment span movies, TV, Broadway, music, books, podcasts and the internet (as an unwitting viral star) — the list could go on, and if you know Palmer's drive, it inevitably will. And now her dynamic turn in Jordan Peele's social sci-fi thriller "Nope" has catapulted her to

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