Tonya Pinkins

Tonya Pinkins

American actress
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Tonya Pinkins 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 was born on Wednesday, 30 May 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Her full name at birth was Tonya Latricha Pinkins. She is best known as an actress. Pinkins' country of citizenship (nationality) is American. Tonya attended high school at Whitney Young Magnet High School. For university, she studied at Carnegie Mellon University. She is 5' 7" (170 cm) tall and weighs 132 lbs (60 kg) with a slim build. She has black eyes and black hair (color). Tonya Pinkins is 62 years old and her zodiac star sign is Gemini.

You can find people similar to Tonya Pinkins by visiting our lists 20th-century African-American women and 21st-century African-American women.

Full name at birth
Tonya Latricha Pinkins
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Claim to fame
her roles as Heather Dalton Foster in the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns, Livia Frye in the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, Mailika Watson in the 1994 sports drama film Above the Rim, Amala Motobo in the Fox action drama series 24, Ethel Peabody in the Fox superhero crime drama series Gotham, Miz Mimi Corcoran in the Hulu science fiction thriller miniseries 11/22/63, Susan Thompson in the political drama thriller series Madam Secretary, Sandra in the ABC political drama series Scandal, Julie in the CBS action crime drama and police procedural series NCIS: New Orleans, Judge Maynard in the CBS legal drama series Bull, and Alma Carthan in the ABC historical drama miniseries Women of the Movement
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Date of birth
30 May 1962
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Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Actress, filmmaker, singer, author
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Height
5' 7" (170 cm)
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Weight
132 lbs (60 kg)
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High school
Whitney Young Magnet High School
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  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Columbia College Chicago (BA)
  • California Western School of Law
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  • She was nominated for a 1998 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principle Role in a Musical for "Play On!" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her performance in "Caroline, or Change" in 2004.
  • Won Broadway`s 1992 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for Jelly`s Last Jam. "Subsequently, she was twice Tony-nominated as Best Actress (Musical): in 1997 for "Play On!" and in 2004 for "Caroline, or Change."

Tonya Pinkins is known for her role in the TV series Gotham (2014) as Ethel Peabody.

She is also known for her role in the TV series Fear the Walking Dead (2015) as Martha.

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