@laChanze

LaChanze is a Tony Award winning (and nominated) Broadway actress, who most recently starred in Summer (Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical). She has also starred on Broadway in If/Then, The Color Purple (Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical), Once on This Island (Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical), Ragtime, Company, and Uptown It’s Hot. Her Off-Broadway credits include Dessa Rose (Obie Award and Drama Desk Award nomination), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Drama Desk nomination) and Inked Baby. Other theater credits include The Wiz, Baby, From the Mississippi Delta and Spunk. Film credits include: The Help, Side Effects, Breaking Upwards, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Disney’s Hercules, For Love or Money, and Leap of Faith. Television credits include Handel’s Messiah Rocks, Lucy, Law & Order: SVU, Sex & the City, New York Undercover and The Cosby Show.