Who is precious

Photos Top cast Edit. Gabourey Sidibe Precious as Precious. Mo'Nique Mary as Mary. Paula Patton Ms. Rain as Ms. Mariah Carey Ms. Weiss as Ms. Sherri Shepherd Cornrows as Cornrows.

Stephanie Andujar Rita as Rita. Chyna Layne Rhonda as Rhonda. Amina Robinson Jermaine as Jermaine. Xosha Roquemore Joann as Joann. Angelic Zambrana Consuelo as Consuelo. Aunt Dot Toosie as Toosie. Nealla Gordon Mrs. Lichtenstein as Mrs. Grace Hightower Socialworker as Socialworker. Kimberly Russell Katherine as Katherine. Bill Sage Mr.

Wicher as Mr. Lee Daniels. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In Harlem, Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is illiterate and overweight. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise.

Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud as she doesn't ever look for a job and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household.

To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Save Word. Essential Meaning of precious. Full Definition of precious Entry 1 of 2.

Definition of precious Entry 2 of 2. Other Words from precious Adjective preciousness noun. Examples of precious in a Sentence Adjective That so many of China's cleverest and most creative men and women had to sell their books and their most precious carvings and family seals to keep themselves alive, while corpulent nationalists and their friends dined well in local banquet halls, gave them some right to schadenfreude.

Some precious glee we seek is absent, the season less substantial, less likeable. They were able to be together for only a few precious hours. There are precious few hours of sunlight left. Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Also, working with precious newborn seals sounds like a sweet dream come true.

George Gorant, Robb Report , 2 Nov. First Known Use of precious Adjective 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Adverb , in the meaning defined above. History and Etymology for precious Adjective and Adverb Middle English, from Anglo-French precios , from Latin pretiosus , from pretium price — more at price entry 1.

Learn More About precious. It has been a box office and critical success. At the Sundance Festival in Utah where it premiered last January it won best drama, at Cannes last May it received a minute standing ovation, and on the day I do this interview, they are queuing around the corner in New York City.

Directed by Lee Daniels, who says he related to the book partly because he had been physically abused in his childhood, the film has no big names in the main roles. It stars first-time actress Gabourey Sidibe, 24, who has been tipped for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Precious, and Mo'Nique, a bawdy comedienne well-known in New York who plays Precious's sadistic mother with consummate ambiguity. There are also supporting roles for Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. Sapphire, meanwhile, has been surfing her own wave of popularity.

Her publishers, Random House, recently pushed the button on a one-million print run. Speaking to the Evening Standard in her first British newspaper interview, Sapphire, who was born Ramona Lofton in Fort Ord, California, and looks significantly younger than her 59 years, is disarmingly down to earth.

She describes herself as bisexual and admits to being sexually abused by her own father, a US army sergeant, at the age of eight and abandoned by her mother, a nurse, when she was But the story is not autobiographical, she says. I sort of reeled, thinking I'd heard wrong, and when I asked again how old her daughter was, she told the class: I had a baby by my father when I was 12'.

This woman was black, slim and HIV-positive. But to create my character, Precious [who also has a Down's syndrome baby at 12 and is also HIV-positive], I mixed her with my other students, including a teenager who was profoundly obese and illiterate, and who more physically embodies the character Precious you see on the screen.

Sapphire wrote the book, she says, after she left teaching to do a masters in creative writing at Brooklyn College because at the time she thought: if I don't tell their stories, who will?

I was the second of four children, and he would beat us and make us rewash all the dishes if they didn't come up to his obsessive-compulsive standards. Dad had served in the Korean War and claimed to have been a prisoner of war who had suffered extreme deprivations and hallucinations.

He once told me he had eaten his combat boot after mistaking it for a strip of bacon. Sapphire's family lived in military bases across America and in Germany, but when she was 13 her father retired from the army and bought a big house in Los Angeles.

The plan was for their mother to send the children on ahead and follow once she'd packed up their flat in Philadelphia. But without calling or explaining, she never arrived.

It was traumatic — but to be left with our crazy dad, doubly so. On finishing school she fled her father's house in Los Angeles for a new start.