Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose ( born September 6, 1972 in Bloomfield, Connecticut ) is an American actress and singer.

Biography

The African American woman who wanted to be a veterinarian originally came at the high school with the singing and acting in touch. Later, Anika Noni Rose attended Florida A & M University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Theatre Studies. After her acting studies at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, she went to New York to start a legitimate career as an actress. In 1998 she celebrated her Broadway debut with the supporting role of Rusty in the musical Footloose, the more appearances in off-Broadway productions followed. Her breakthrough experienced in 2004 with the Part of Emmie Thibodeaux in the applied between a musical and drama Broadway play Caroline, Or Change, for which she won the prestigious Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award.

In addition to her work in the theater appeared Anika Noni Rose in the late 1990s in film and television. In 2003, she was in the American Idol Justin vehicle & Kelly: Beach Party to see the love in which she acted alongside the competition finalists Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini. In 2006, she occupied Bill Condon in his multiple Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the Broadway Dreamgirls, which made them more widely known among U.S. and German audiences. Based on the career of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the film tells of the rise of an African American vocal trio in the early 1960s, the Rose embodied together with the barely tested in the cinema singers Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Hudson.

Filmography (selection)

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