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LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (/ l ə ˈ ʃ ɑː n z /; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
The Color Purple: Won [57] Seattle Film Critics Society: 2024 Best Actress in a Leading Role Wicked: Nominated [58] St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2020 Best Actress Harriet: Nominated [59] Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association: 2018: Best Supporting Actress: Bad Times at the El Royale: Nominated [60] Women Film Critics Circle ...
Oprah, who made her unforgettable film debut as Sofia in the 1985 movie, has served as a Color Purple “whisperer” of sorts ever since: She was a producer of the 2015 Tony Award–winning ...
Lawrence Clayton, who made his Broadway debut in Dreamgirls and most recently starred in the 2015 revival of The Color Purple, died November 2 after a two-year battle with glioblastoma cancer. He ...
Linda Lavin has died unexpectedly at the age of 87. Lavin was a Broadway star and Tony nominee who guest-starred on Barney Miller before getting her own TV series, Alice.She returned to Broadway ...
Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Erivo (/ ə ˈ r iː v oʊ / ə-REE-voh; [2] born 8 January 1987) is a British actress and singer. She has received several accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Despite praise on Broadway, Brooks was one of the Tony Awards snubs from the past year. This allowed the 34-year-old star to speak candidly about her journey encapsulated in one phrase: “What ...