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Tonya Pinkins
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Within Vinony's link graph, Tonya Pinkins is referenced by 218 other articles, and connects out to Tony Awards, Cold Case and Scandal.
It is catalogued under topics including 20th-century African-American actresses, 20th-century American actresses and 21st-century African-American actresses.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Get over Yourself
- GET OVER YOURSELF!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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…
Known for
- The Life of Peter Gottlieb — Dean Fendleman2024
- Women of the Movement — Alma2022
- East New York — Shirley Haywood2022
- The Surrogate — Karen Weatherston-Harris2021
- Red Pill — Cassandra2021
- Run the World — Gwen Greene2021
- The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler — Narradora2021
- The Artist's Wife — Liza Caldwell2020
- The School for Wives — Arnolphe2020
- Wu-Tang: An American Saga — Burgess2019
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,653
- Total plays
- 18,391
Tags
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.tonyapinkins.com
- Image
- Tonya Pinkins Throws Down The Gauntlet.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1962-05-30
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Tonya Pinkins
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