Anika Noni Rose
Highest Rated: 100% Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017)
Lowest Rated: 7% Surviving Christmas (2004)
Birthday: Sep 6, 1972
Birthplace: Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
A slight actress with a big voice, Anika Noni Rose studied at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. After learning all she could to prepare herself, she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage, getting her first break with a role in the Broadway production of Footloose. Rose's voice, acting, and unmistakable stage presence assured that doors would continue to open for her and she would continue to rack up prominent roles, becoming what could only be described as a truly successful career stage actress, starring in such Broadway productions as Eli's Comin', Purlie, Threepenny Opera, and Tartuffe. The actress was honored with an Obie Award as well as a Garland/Drama-Logue Award for her work, but she received by far the most success and acknowledgement for her role in the acclaimed Caroline or Change, for which she won a Tony award in 2004 for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as a Lucille Lortell Award, a Theatre World Award, and a Clarence Derwent Award.Intent on exploring every possible avenue as a performer, Rose began a career onscreen in the new millennium. She guest-starred in an episode of Third Watch, and scored a role in the American Idol contestant-driven From Justin to Kelly in 2003. Then in 2006, Rose took a role in an ideal hybrid of her talents with the big-screen version of the musical Dreamgirls, a roman à clef based on Motown girl group The Supremes. Rose played Lorrell Robinson, the member of the group who experiences the least drama in the story, but whose solid presence -- not to mention voice -- is vital to the script. The longtime pro had no problem surrendering the media spotlight to über-divas Beyoncé Knowles and Jennifer Hudson, who played the other two members of the group, but few could help but notice what a force to be reckoned with the Broadway talent was. After the movie and its impending media blitz was over, Rose reprised her role in Caroline or Change in L.A. and San Francisco before she returned with the musical to Broadway.In 2009 she made history voicing the first African-American princess in Disney history when she played Tiana in The Princess and the Frog, and later joined the cast of the hit CBS series The Good Wife. Her big-screen resume continued with the ambitious Tyler Perry project For Colored Girls.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Jingle Jangle | Actor | — | 2020 |
| 73% | Assassination Nation | Nance | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Nación Asesina | Nance | — | 2018 |
| 45% | Everything, Everything | Dr. Whittier | $34.1M | 2017 |
| 100% | Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart | Actor | — | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | The Quad: The Movie | Dr. Eva Fletcher | — | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Throne of Elves | Meyla | — | 2016 |
| 51% | Half of a Yellow Sun | Kainene | $54.1K | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Paris | — | 2014 |
| 44% | Khumba | Lungisa | $91K | 2013 |
| 14% | As Cool As I Am | Frances | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Wilona Watson | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Skyler | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Have A Little Faith | Annette Covington | — | 2011 |
| 32% | For Colored Girls | Yasmine/Yellow | $37.8M | 2010 |
| 85% | The Princess and the Frog | Princess Tiana | $104.4M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | The Starter Wife | Lavender | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Just Add Water | R'Ch'lle | — | 2007 |
| 78% | Dreamgirls | Lorrell Robinson | $103.4M | 2006 |
| 70% | POV | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 7% | Surviving Christmas | Choir | $11.2M | 2004 |
| 10% | From Justin To Kelly | Kaya | $4.6M | 2003 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
American Masters 2001 |
Voice |
2018 |
| 100% |
The Quad 2017-2018 |
Eva Fletcher Dr. Eva Fletcher |
2018 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Chew 2011-2018 |
Guest |
2018 2017 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Chopped Junior 2015 |
Judge |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show 2008 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2016 |
| 96% |
Roots 2016 |
Kizzy |
2016 |
| 100% |
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore 2015-2016 |
Panelist |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose 2013-2017 |
Guest |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Sofia the First 2013-2019 |
Voice |
2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Great Performances 2000 |
Marta |
2013 |
| 94% |
The Good Wife 2009-2016 |
Wendy Scott-Carr |
2013 2012 2011 2010 |
| 96% |
Elementary 2012-2019 |
Carrie Dwyer Dr. Carrie Dwyer |
2012 |
| 51% |
Private Practice 2007-2013 |
Corinne |
2012 |
| 85% |
The Simpsons 1989 |
Voice |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Dr. Phil 2002 |
Guest |
2011 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999 |
Guest Hotel Maid |
2011 |
| 21% |
Stephen King's Bag of Bones 2011 |
Sara Tidwell |
2011 |
| No Score Yet |
POV 1988 |
Appearing |
2007 |
| 18% |
Hack 2002-2004 |
Vickie Morgan |
2003 |
| No Score Yet |
Elementary |
Dr. Carrie Dwyer |
QUOTES FROM Anika Noni Rose CHARACTERS
Lainee says: Why do people stay together? Uh - in bad relationships, I mean.
Frances says: They eat so much shit for so long. They don't even recognize the taste of it after a while.
Lainee says: So you think I've been eating shit, don't you?
Kaya says: What did you do?
Alexa says: Nothin'!
Kelly says: How could you do this to me?
Alexa says: I don't know. Kel, it's easy for you. I mean, you get people to see what you really are, and I-I've always been jealous. I know I shouldn't. I mean, we've been friends since forever, but... Kaya had a guy and you had Justin. I just felt like Miss Runner-Up. You have to believe that I did not mean to hurt you. I promise. I just-I just thought if I could get Justin like me, then... Maybe I can be as good as you.
Kelly says: You're nothing like me, Alexa. Because I would never do that to a friend.
Kaya says: Heck, yeah! I mean 'hell yeah', I say hell all the time! Hell, hell, hell... hell.
Charlotte says: Gimme some napkins, quick!
Princess Tiana says: What's for?
Charlotte says: I swear, I'm sweatin' like a sinner in church!
Princess Tiana says: I suppose that you want a kiss.
Prince Naveen says: Kissin' would be nice.
Princess Tiana says: There's no way I'm kissin' a frog and eatin' a bug on the same day.
Princess Tiana says: Just one kiss?
Prince Naveen says: Yes, unless you beg for more.
Kaya says: (opens the hotel room door and Justin sees her) Justin, what are you doin'?
Kaya says: Justin, what are you doin'?
Prince Naveen says: You must kiss me.
Princess Tiana says: Excuse me?
Charlotte says: Gimme them napkins, quick!
Princess Tiana says: Whatever for?
Princess Tiana says: What for?
Charlotte says: I swear, I'm sweating like a sinner in church!
Princess Tiana says: I suppose you want a kiss.
Prince Naveen says: Kissing would be nice.
Princess Tiana says: There's no way I'm kissing a frog and eating a bug on the same day.