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Tonya Pinkins (born May 30, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. Her award-winning debut feature film RED PILL was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival, won the Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Feature at The Mykonos International Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Luléa Film Festival, and is nominated for awards in numerous festivals around the globe. Her web-series The RED PILLING of AMERICA can be heard on her podcast "You Can't Say That!" at BPN.fm/ycst

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Tonya Pinkins
Born	(1962-05-30) May 30, 1962 (age 60) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University Columbia College Chicago (BA) California Western School of Law
Occupation	Actress filmmaker
Years active	1980–present
Website	tonyapinkins.com

She is known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera All My Children and for her roles on Broadway. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards (winning one), and has won Obie, Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, AUDLECO, Garland, L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Clarence Derwent, and NAACP Theater Awards. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Noel, Joseph Jefferson, NAACP Image, Soap Opera Digest, and Ovation Awards. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Jelly's Last Jam.

Early life and education

Pinkins was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a police officer and insurance salesman, and her mother is a former postal worker. She has two brothers, Eric and Thomas Swoope, and a sister Tamera Swoope.

Pinkins was interested in the arts from a young age. At Whitney Young Magnet High School, she participated in the theater program and also studied acting at the Goodman Theatre Young People's Program. She attended Carnegie Mellon University's BFA Musical Theatre program, but was cast in Merrily We Roll Along and decided to pursue her career, instead.[1]

Pinkins later returned to college, earning an undergraduate degree in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago in 1996, followed by a year at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Career

Pinkins 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,[2] 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.[3]

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,[4] 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.[5]

In 2014, she 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 also made guest appearances on such television shows as Army Wives, 24, Law & Order, The Cosby Show, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, and The Guardian among others.[6]

During the mid-1980s Pinkins created the character 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.^{[citation needed]}

She played Amala Motobo on 24. Pinkins played Ethel Peabody on the television show Gotham.[6] In 2016, she played Mimi Corcoran on the Hulu science fiction limited series 11.22.63, based on the Stephen King book of the same name, and starring James Franco and Sarah Gadon.[6] On March 16, 2017, she portrayed Sandra in the ABC television series Scandal.^{[citation needed]}

Pinkins 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.[6]

Pinkins has performed in several cabaret shows including Bring On The Men with Brad Simmons, Tonya Pinkins UnPlugged at The National Black Theater Festival and Hurricane Ethel.^{[citation needed]}

Pinkins wrote, directed, and starred as Cassandra in Red Pill, to be released in 2020.[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Growing Up Young	Carol	Short
1984	Beat Street	Angela
1986	Rage of Angels: The Story Continues	Sharon	TV Movie
	Hotshot	-
1989	See No Evil, Hear No Evil	Leslie
1993	Strapped	A.T.F. Officer	TV Movie
1994	Above the Rim	Mailika Watson
	Against Their Will: Women in Prison	Sondra	TV Movie
2000	Redemption	Dr. Jones	Short
2002	Love Hurts	Auntie V
2004	Love, Mom	Mom	Short
2005	Romance & Cigarettes	Female Medic
2006	Premium	Marva
	True Grits	Woman #1	Short
2007	Kuriocity	Ruby Riggs
	Enchanted	Phoebe Banks
2008	Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom	Mrs. Robinson
2013	Newlyweeds	Patrice
	Fading Gigolo	Othella
	Home	Esmin
2015	Ori Inu: In Search of Self	Mama Lola	Short
	For Justice	Marian Horn	TV Movie
2016	Collective: Unconscious	Ripa
	Fearless Love	Det. Cambridge	Short
2017	Aardvark	Abigail
	The Book of Henry	Principal Wilder
	My Days of Mercy	Agatha
	An Act of Terror	Mary Church Terrell	Short
2018	Write When You Get Work	Roberta Simmons
	Paris Blues in Harlem	Shirley	Short
	Mr. Talented	Valerie Brown	Short
2019	The Artist's Wife	Liza Caldwell
2020	The Surrogate	Karen Weatherston-Harris
	Black Lady Goddess	Professor Davis	TV Movie
	Red Pill	Cassandra
2021	Better Than My Last	Mrs. Carter	TV Movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	American Dream	-	Episode: "American Dream"
1984–86	As the World Turns	Heather Dalton	Regular Cast
1987	Crime Story	Junkie Prostitute	Episode: "Justice Hits the Skids"
1990	The Cosby Show	Iris	Episode: "Elvin Pays for Dinner"
	Guiding Light	Alanon Woman 2	Episode: "Episode #1.11039"
	Law & Order	Woman	Episode: "Subterranean Homeboy Blues"
1991–94	All My Children	Livia Frye	Regular Cast
1995	University Hospital	Nurse Mary Jenkins	Main Cast
2000	Great Performances	-	Episode: "Play On!"
2002	The Guardian	Melinda Tralins	Episode: "In Loco Parentis"
2004–09	All My Children	Livia Frye	Regular Cast
2005	Sleeper Cell	Anita Al-Sayeed	Episode: "Family"
2006	Criminal Minds	Det. Nora Bennett	Episode: "A Real Rain"
	Cold Case	Dina Miller	Episode: "The River"
	Law & Order	Angela Young	Episode: "Hindsight"
2007	Unfabulous	Ms. Best	Episode: "The Toot"
2008	The Closer	Donna Taft	Episode: "Split Ends"
2009	24	Alama Matobo	Recurring Cast: Season 7
	Army Wives	Viola Crawford	Recurring Cast: Season 3
2013	Hostages	Beth Nix	Episode: "2:45 PM"
2015	Nurse Jackie	Charlane	Episode: "Deal" & "Nice Ladies"
2015–16	Gotham	Ethel Peabody	Recurring Cast: Season 2, Guest: Season 3
2016	11.22.63	Mia Mimi Corcoran	Recurring Cast
2016–19	Madam Secretary	Susan Thompson	Recurring Cast: Season 3-6
2017	Scandal	Sandra	Episode: "Extinction" & "A Traitor Among Us"
	The Strain	Francis	Episode: "Belly of the Beast"
2018	Random Acts of Flyness	Ripa The Reaper	Recurring Cast
	Elementary	Judge Marilyn Whitfield	Episode: "Fit to Be Tied"
	Fear the Walking Dead	Martha	Recurring Cast: Season 4
	Adventures in New America	Sam	Episode: "Love in the First Degree"
2019	NCIS: New Orleans	Julie	Episode: "Reckoning"
	Bull	Judge Maynard	Episode: "When the Rains Came"
	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	Burgess	Episode: "Impossible"
	The Two Princes	Upendo	Recurring Cast
2020	Katy Keene	Busker	Episode: "Pilot"
	God Friended Me	Marsha	Recurring Cast: Season 2
2021	Run the World	Gwen Greene	Episode: "Plus Ones"
	Women of the Movement	Alma Carthan	Main Cast

References

External links

• Tonya Pinkins at the Internet Broadway Database
• Tonya Pinkins at IMDb
• Tonya Pinkins at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Official website

На других языках

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[ru] Пинкинс, Тоня

Тоня Пинкинс (англ. Tonya Pinkins, род. 30 мая 1962) — американская актриса и певица, добившаяся наибольшего успеха благодаря выступлениям на бродвейской сцене. В 1992 году Пинкинс выиграла премию «Тони» за роль второго плана в мюзикле Jelly’s Last Jam, а затем ещё дважды номинировалась на награду за главные роли в Play On! и Caroline, or Change[2]. Также Пинкинс за свою карьеру выиграла «Драма Деск», Obie и NAACP, а также номинировалась на премию Лоренса Оливье.

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