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| Doğum yeri | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Doğum günü | 1962-05-30 |
| Anasayfa | Ziyaret etmek |
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Tonya Pinkins was born in Chicago, Illinois. She has four children. Her father was a police officer and insurance salesman and her mother is a former postal worker. She has two brothers, Eric Swoope and Thomas Swoope and a sister Tamera Swoope from whom she is estranged. She was interested in the arts from a young age. In high school, she studied acting at the Goodman Theatre Young People's Program. Aged 18, she briefly attended college and decided to pursue an acting career instead. She later returned to college, earning an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in Chicago, followed by graduate work at Carnegie Mellon's music theater program, and a year at California Western School of Law in San Diego. Pinkins is probably most admired for her stage work. She won a Tony Award for her performance as Sweet Anita in Jelly's Last Jam. She was nominated for her roles in Play On! and in Caroline, or Change, where she played the title role. Her additional Broadway credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Wild Party, House of Flowers, Radio Golf, A Time To Kill and Holler If Ya Hear Me. Pinkins has performed in several Off Broadway productions, including the comic role of Mopsa, the Shepherdess, in The Winter's Tale produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Center in 1983. In 2011, Pinkins starred in the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar at La Jolla Playhouse, and received a 2012 Craig Noel nomination for Best featured Actress in a Play. She reprised her role in the Playwrights Horizons in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and garnered a 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. In 2012 Pinkins starred in Katori Hall's play Hurt Village, the gritty drama about life and change in a Memphis housing project made its world-premiere at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company as part of the theatre's inaugural season. The play also Marsha Stephanie Blake, Ron Cephas Jones, Saycon Sengbloh, Lloyd Watts, Charlie Hudson III, Nicholas Christopher, Corey Hawkins, Ron Cephas Jones and Joaquina Kalukango. In 2014, Pinkins appeared in New Federal Theatre's revival of Ed Bullins' The Fabulous Miss Marie opposite Roscoe Orman; in the Broadway production of Holler If Ya Hear Me; and the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' War at Yale Repertory. She has also had a prolific television career making guest appearances on such television shows as Army Wives, 24, Law & Order, The Cosby Show, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, and The Guardian among others. During the mid-1980s Pinkins created the role of Heather Dalton on the CBS soap, As the World Turns. In 1991 she was cast as Livia Frye in All My Children. Pinkins left All My Children in 1995 but returned to her role in 2003. She was later put on contract with the show from March 2004 until June 2006, when she was downgraded to recurring status. She has played Amala Motobo on the popular television show 24. She has appeared in several films in supporting roles, including Newlyweeds, Home, Fading Gigolo opposite Woody Allen, Enchanted, Premium, Romance & Cigarettes, Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom and Above the Rim among others.
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| 2024 | The Life of Peter Gottlieb as Dean Fendleman |
| 2021 | The Surrogate as Karen Weatherston-Harris |
| 2021 | Red Pill as Cassandra |
| 2020 | The School for Wives as Arnolphe |
| 2020 | The Artist's Wife as Liza Caldwell |
| 2018 | Mr. Talented as Valerie Brown |
| 2018 | Aardvark as Abigail |
| 2018 | My Days of Mercy as Agatha |
| 2017 | Henry'nin Kitabı as Principal Wilder |
| 2017 | An Act of Terror as Mary Church Terrell |
| 2016 | Olabilecek En Güzel Felaket as Self |
| 2016 | Collective: Unconscious as Ripa the Reaper |
| 2016 | Everybody Dies! as Ripa the Reaper |
| 2015 | Rasheeda Speaking as Jaclyn |
| 2013 | Home as Esmin |
| 2013 | Newlyweeds as Patrice |
| 2008 | Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom as Mrs. Robinson |
| 2007 | Manhattan'da Sihir as Phoebe Banks |
| 2005 | Aşk ve Sigara as Female Medic |
| 1994 | Against Their Will: Women in Prison as Sondra |
| 1994 | Above the Rim as Mailika |
| 1992 | Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway as Herself |
| 1989 | Bana Göz Kulak Ol as Leslie |
| 1981 | American Dream |
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