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Tonya Pinkins
Homepage
http://www.tonyapinkins.com
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1962-05-30,Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

Romance & Cigarettes

5.954

Romance & Cigarettes
2005-09-13

An Act of Terror

0

An Act of Terror
2017-01-01

6.6

Home
2013-11-22

4.9

Newlyweeds
2013-09-18

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

6.7

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989-05-12

Against Their Will: Women in Prison

8

Against Their Will: Women in Prison
1994-10-29

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide

0

The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
2025-09-18

0

American Dream
1981-04-26

5

Aardvark
2018-04-13

The Book of Henry

7.5

The Book of Henry
2017-06-16

The Life of Peter Gottlieb

0

The Life of Peter Gottlieb
2024-09-24

0

Mr. Talented
2018-08-11

Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway

8

Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
1992-11-02

6.932

Above the Rim
1994-03-23

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...

7.5

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016-11-18

4.9

The Surrogate
2021-07-09

My Days of Mercy

7.349

My Days of Mercy
2018-03-31

Collective: Unconscious

6.2

Collective: Unconscious
2016-08-05

6.825

Enchanted
2007-11-20

The Artist's Wife

5.6

The Artist's Wife
2020-09-25

Rasheeda Speaking

0

Rasheeda Speaking
2015-10-01

The School for Wives

2

The School for Wives
2020-10-24

Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

6.2

Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
2008-10-26

Everybody Dies!

5

Everybody Dies!
2016-03-03

6

Red Pill
2021-03-12

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.9

The Closer
2005-06-13

6.9

The Guardian
2001-09-25

7.006

The Cosby Show
1984-09-20

7.763

Cold Case
2003-09-28

7.8

24
2001-11-06

8.311

Criminal Minds
2005-09-22

7.5

Army Wives
2007-06-03

Women of the Movement

7.5

Women of the Movement
2022-01-06

University Hospital

0

University Hospital
1995-01-16

Black in the 80s

0

Black in the 80s
2005-02-01

All My Children

6.3

All My Children
1970-01-05

6.955

Run the World
2021-05-16

7.8

11.22.63
2016-02-15

5.9

Hostages
2013-09-23

7.597

Gotham
2014-09-22

Random Acts of Flyness

4.6

Random Acts of Flyness
2018-08-04

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

8.2

Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2019-09-04

The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler

3

The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
2021-12-02

7.159

Scandal
2012-04-05

8

Crime Story
1986-09-19

7.4

East New York
2022-10-02

Fear the Walking Dead

7.7

Fear the Walking Dead
2015-08-23

7.1

Bull
2016-09-20

7.4

Law & Order
1990-09-13

God Friended Me

7.893

God Friended Me
2018-09-30

7.605

Elementary
2012-09-27

7.478

The Strain
2014-07-13

7.5

Army Wives
2007-06-03

Great Performances

4.9

Great Performances
1971-01-28