1. Naturi Naughton was a series regular on the NBC series The Playboy Club as Bunny Brenda, starred in the first season of the Lifetime drama series The Client List as Kendra and starred in the Starz drama Power as Tasha St Patrick, a role she reprised in the spin-off series Power Book II: Ghost.
Naturi Naughton was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Brenda, a part-time paralegal, and Ezra Naturi Naughton, a retired accountant.
Naturi Naughton's father is originally from St Croix, US Virgin Islands and her mother is from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Naturi Naughton continued her musical studies at the Newark School of the Arts.
Naturi Naughton attended St Joseph's Catholic school and Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, New Jersey.
Naturi Naughton has sung the national anthem at various events in New Jersey and attended Seton Hall University.
In 1999, at age 15, Naturi Naughton joined Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams to form the group 3LW.
Naturi Naughton insisted that the other two girls and their management had forced her out.
In May 2017, Naturi Naughton reunited with Bailon on the daytime talk show The Real, while promoting the season premiere of Power.
Naturi Naughton recorded five tracks for the Fame soundtrack, released on August 25,2009.
Naturi Naughton was believed to be working with music producer Full Force at the time.
Naturi Naughton has since revealed that she is focusing on her acting career, but has not ruled out an album.
Naturi Naughton was later cast as Denise, an aspiring singer, in the Lionsgate remake of the 1980 film of the same name Fame.
The episode, "Hands and Knees", which aired on September 26,2010, saw Naturi Naughton portray the role of Toni Charles, a Playboy Bunny mistress to the character Lane Pryce.
In March 2011, Naturi Naughton appeared in the drama television series pilot The Playboy Club, which centers around the lives of the employees of the original Playboy Club operating in Chicago.
Naturi Naughton portrayed Brenda, a Playboy Bunny who dreams of being the first African-American Playboy centerfold.
The role marked the second time Naturi Naughton portrayed a fictional Playboy Bunny.
In October 2011, Naturi Naughton appeared as a 1970s jazz club singer named Shadynasty in an episode of the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
In December 2011, it was announced Naturi Naughton had been cast in the Lifetime drama television series The Client List opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Naturi Naughton plays the role of Kendra, a hard-working masseuse at a parlor.
In September 2012, Naturi Naughton starred in the BET original film Let the Church Say Amen, which is an adaptation of author ReShonda Tate Billingsley's 2005 best-selling novel of the same name.
Naturi Naughton then starred in the Starz drama Power as Tasha St Patrick, the wife of James "Ghost" St Patrick, a New York nightclub owner living a double life as a drug kingpin.
Naturi Naughton won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the third season.
Naturi Naughton reprised her role as Tasha in the spin-off series Power Book II: Ghost, which began airing in September 2020.
On March 8,2021, it was announced that Naturi Naughton had joined the cast of American Broadcasting Company's music series Queens, alongside Brandy and Eve.
In March 2017, Naturi Naughton announced that she was expecting her first child.
Naturi Naughton welcomed a daughter with her then-partner Ben on July 19,2017.
Naturi Naughton welcomed her second child, a son, on May 27,2023.