Danielle Brooks

Danielle Brooks

Danielle Brooks (born September 17, 1989) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as prison inmate Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). In 2015, Brooks made her Broadway debut in the musical revival of The Color Purple as Sofia, for which she received a nomination for a Tony Award and won a Grammy Award. In 2023, Brooks reprised her role as Sofia in the film adaptation of The Color Purple and was nominated for an Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, and Golden Globe Award for her performance. In 2021, she played gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in the made-for-television biographical film Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie as an executive producer. In 2022, Brooks hosted Netflix's reality series Instant Dream Home and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Program Host. The same year, Brooks starred in the superhero series Peacemaker (2022–present) and returned to Broadway in the revival of the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She has since starred in the fantasy adventure comedy A Minecraft Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Augusta, Georgia, USA, 1989-09-17

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2008	Fireproof	Young Catherine (voice)	77
2	2014	Time Out of Mind	Receptionist	56
3	2015	The Same Difference		31
4	2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Olive Blue / Monica the Crossing Guard (voice)	62
5	2016	I Dream Too Much	Abbey	48
6	2017	Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image	Herself	70
7	2018	Sadie	Carla	67
8	2019	The Day Shall Come	Venus Al Shabaz	57
9	2019	The Public's Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	70
10	2019	Clemency	Evette Wilkinson	63
11	2020	Eat Wheaties!	Wendy	54
12	2020	Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine	Jordana Bachman	54
13	2021	All the Little Things We Kill	Claire Soto	40
14	2021	Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia	Mahalia Jackson	69
15	2021	DC Fandome 2021		0
16	2022	Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising	Self	60
17	2023	The Color Purple	Sofia	71
18	2023	Oprah & The Color Purple Journey	Self	45
19	2025	A Minecraft Movie	Dawn	65
20	2025	The Bad Guys 2	Kitty Kat (voice)	0
21	2025	Oh. What. Fun.		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
3	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
4	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
5	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
6	2004	Project Runway	Self	62
7	2004	Project Runway	Self - Guest Judge	62
8	2006	The One Show	Self	45
9	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
10	2012	Honest Trailers	Dawn (archive footage)	65
11	2012	Finding Your Roots		62
12	2013	Orange Is the New Black	Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson	77
13	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self - Guest	59
14	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
15	2014	Trailblazer Honors	Self - Honoree	75
16	2015	Lip Sync Battle	Self	64
17	2015	Master of None	Shannon	74
18	2017	Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure	Ruthless Ruth	72
19	2019	Tamron Hall	Self - Guest	51
20	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
21	2020	Bottomless Brunch at Colman's	Self	0
22	2020	Close Enough	Pearle Watson (voice)	80
23	2020	Get Organized with The Home Edit		65
24	2020	Social Distance	Imani	63
25	2021	Karma’s World	Dr. Lillie Carter-Grant (voice)	72
26	2022	Peacemaker	Leota Adebayo	82
27	2022	Instant Dream Home	Self - Host	64
28	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
29	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42