Danielle Brooks is best known for her role as "Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson" in the Netflix Emmy-nominated series, “Orange is the New Black.” For her performance, Brooks was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for "Best Actress in a Comedy Series" as well as a Satellite Award for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television.” Danielle was also the recipient of the Young Hollywood Award for "Breakthrough Actress” and nominated for a NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series". Brooks received the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performan...
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Danielle Brooks is best known for her role as “Tasha ‘Taystee’ Jefferson” in the Netflix Emmy-nominated series, “Orange is the New Black.” For her performance, Brooks was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for “Best Actress in a Comedy Series” as well as a Satellite Award for “Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television.” Danielle was also the recipient of the Young Hollywood Award for “Breakthrough Actress” and nominated for a NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series”. Brooks received the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series” three years in a row.
Brooks made her Broadway debut in the Tony winning revival of The Color Purple. For her performance, she was nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and received a Grammy Award as well as a Theatre World Award for “Significant Broadway Debut.”
Recent work includes a leading role in Chris Morris’ next feature film, “The Day Shall Come”, that will premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, the feature film “Clemency” opposite Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce and Aldis Hodge that won the 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a leading role in the independent feature “All the Little Things We Kill”, a lead role in the independent feature, “Sadie” opposite Melanie Lynskey, a series lead role in the upcoming TBS primetime animated series, “Close Enough”, a recurring role on Aziz Ansari’s Emmy Award winning, Netflix comedy series, “Master of None” and Guest Lead Roles on HBO’s “High Maintenance” and “Girls”. Brooks also voiced two characters for Sony’s “Angry Birds”, and previously starred in Oren Moverman’s “Time Out of Mind” and the independent feature, “I Dream Too Much,” which premiered at SXSW.
Danielle was the face of Christian Siriano’s debut Spring capsule collection for Lane Bryant and was the face of Lane Bryant’s Fall Campaign that same year. Brooks was one of the faces of Lane Bryant’s “I’m No Angel” Campaign alongside Ashley Graham and released a clothing line with Universal Standard. Most recently, Danielle has teamed up with the newly relaunched plus size fashion retailer Fashion to Figure as their first ever Brand Ambassador as part of their #InclusionRevoultion campaign.
Brooks is on the Artistic Board of Urban Arts Partnership, which advances the intellectual, social and artistic development of underserved public school students through arts-integrated education programs to close the achievement gap.
Brooks grew up in South Carolina and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She currently resides in NYC.
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