Yahoo Lifestyle Niecy Nash Reveals Her 2025 Goal — to Become 'a Movie Star': 'Mother's Mastered the Small Screen' (Exclusive)
The actress has starred in many popular television series, including 'Scream Queens,' 'Claws,' 'Grotesquerie' and 'Reno: 911!'
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Niecy Nash-Betts in December 2024.Niecy Nash-Betts has big goals for 2025!
During the star's holiday party to benefit the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which she co-hosted with Adrienne Maloof, Nash-Betts, 54, revealed what she hopes to accomplish in the new year.
"Becoming a movie star. Mother's mastered the small screen," the actress — who has starred in popular television series including Scream Queens, Claws, Grotesquerie and Reno: 911! — told PEOPLE on Dec. 21.
When asked what she would look like as a bona fide movie star, Nash-Betts said, "You gotta watch and see. Buy a ticket to my movie, honey!"
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Niecy Nash in 'Reno 911!,' 'Grotesquerie' and 'Claws.'According to Nash-Betts, she is "very, very grateful that I lived a life that The Most High [God] stamped on the canvas of my imagination."
"I knew that the call on my life was to entertain, and I get up every morning and I live in gratitude that I get to do it every day. I really do," she continued.
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For Nash-Betts, making sure that she pays forward all that she has worked for and achieved in her life and career is very important.
"When I get a job, I make sure others eat from that blessing, because I never want to be selfish. I never want my blessing to just be for me," she explained. "Because, you know, it just means so much to me that every day, I am entrusted with this responsibility to make people feel, you know what I mean? And I don't want to be selfish with that."
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Niecy Nash in December 2024.Looking ahead, Nash-Betts also told PEOPLE that she wouldn't be opposed to someday putting on a one woman show.
"I've attempted to play with it a couple of times, but life sometimes is life-ing and it didn't manifest in that time," she said. "But I'm a big believer in timing. So I know that when the time is right, it will manifest. It'll happen when the time is right."
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