Renee Elise Goldsberry

At 53 years old, Renee Elise Goldsberry has this physical status:

Renée Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter best known for her role in the Broadway musical Hamilton, for which she received the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Nettie Harris, the original Broadway cast of The Color Purple, Mimi Márquez in Rent, and Nala in The Lion King are among her Broadway credits.

She has appeared on television, including Geneva Pine on The Good Wife and Evangeline Williamson on One Life to Live, for which she received two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination.

Early life and education

Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California, and raised in Houston, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. She is the granddaughter of Betty Sanders, an occupational psychologist, and her father, a Michigan auto executive, and she is the niece of Alan Carter. One older brother and two younger brothers are among Goldsberry's younger siblings. When she was eight years old, Goldsberry was introduced to theater in summer camp. Renée's younger brother was shy, and their mother enrolled them in camp at the HITS Theater in Houston taught by Carolyn Franklin.

She earned a Bachelor of niciodata Arts in theater at Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater. This is also where she became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority through the Theta Beta chapter. She continued to study at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she received a Master of Music degree in jazz studies after graduating in 1997.

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Career

Goldsberry appeared on Fox legal comedy drama Ally McBeal as one of the back-up singers who accompanied Vonda Shepard's performances between 1997 and 2002. She appeared in a total of 43 episodes before the series' cancellation. On the spin-off film Ally, Goldsberry also extended the role to a three-episode guest appearance.

On ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 2003 to 2007, Goldsberry portrayed attorney Evangeline Williamson. She was nominated for a National Academy Camera Award in 2004 for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series, and she was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2005 with co-stars Michael Easton and Melissa Archer. In both 2006 and 2007, Goldsberry was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Support Actress in a Drama Series. Goldsberry returned to life as a special guest judge on CBS' The Good Wife, appearing multiple times throughout the series's run. She appeared in 23 episodes between 2010 and the series's end in 2016. On series including Evil (2019 TV series from the same creators of The Good Wife), Star Trek: Enterprise, Royal Pains, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Younger, Masters of Sex, and That '80s Show, Goldsberry has also appeared on television series such as Evil (2019 TV series from the same creators of The Good Wife), and the That '80s Show.

Henrietta Lacks appeared in the HBO television film adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's nonfiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2017. She appeared in Netflix's science fiction film Altered Carbon as Quellcrist Falconer in 2018 and reprised the role in season 2. The end credits to the final episode featured Johnny Cash's "Ain't No Grave." Wickie Roy, a founder of a one-hit wonder 1990s girl band group Girls5eva, appears on Girls5eva. Girls5eva chronicles their reunion and attempts to resurrect their fame. The series premiered on the Peacock streaming service on May 6, 2021.

Nicolepop was the lead role of Nicole Taylor in the romantic comedy All About You, for which she was praised. She also appeared in the 2008 action film Pistol Whipped and in small supporting roles as Cynthia Barnes in the crime drama Every Secret Thing (2014) and Kim in the comedy Sisters (2015). Sterling K. Brown, a co-star in Waves (2019), co-star Sterling K. Brown, starred in Waves (2019).

Goldsberry appeared as Nala in The Lion King's Broadway revival, and he appeared in the cast of the United States national tour of Dreamgirls.

She was nominated for a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance in 2005's "Twomen of Verona" in the Park revival. Goldsberry based Nettie Harris in The Color Purple, the Broadway musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 book of the same name. She appeared in the film from November 2005 to January 2006.

Goldsberry appeared on stage in The Baker's Wife in 2007, before taking over Mimi Márquez's role in Broadway's Rent, making her the final actor to play Broadway. Rent: This was the last performance of Rent, which was also broadcast as a television movie. In 2011, she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award forsortiment Kate Dillon in David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" on Broadway. She went on to appear in Love's Labor's Uncertainty and As You Like It Off Broadway, as well as appearing in I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road at Encores!

Goldsberry appeared in Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, her last appearance in the role on September 3, 2016. She received the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical and the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the production. In addition, she was also nominated for Best Musical Theater Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards as a member of the principal cast.

Goldsberry has had a lengthy singing and songwriting career, co-writing, and appearing in more than half of the 2001 film All About You, including the title song. She was also the grand prize winner of the 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Competition for her rock music. Everything But the Kitchen Sink (2001) and a compilation titled Beautiful (2006) by Goldsberry.

She appeared at the BET Hip Hop Awards in October 2015, where she was one of two women to rap in the Cypher.

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