Renée Elise Goldsberry - Actress, Singer
Age: 55
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Actress, Singer
Renée Elise Goldsberry is an American actress and singer who has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, for her work on stage and screen.
She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in the original Broadway production of the musical phenomenon Hamilton, a performance for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Her career highlights also include roles on television such as:
Wickie Roy in the musical comedy series Girls5eva.
Geneva Pine on the legal drama The Good Wife.
Evangeline Williamson on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live.
Mallory Book in the superhero miniseries She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
On Broadway, she has also starred in The Color Purple (as Nettie), The Lion King (as Nala), and was the final actress to play Mimi Márquez in the original Broadway run of Rent.
She holds a bachelor of fine arts in theatre from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of music in jazz studies from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.