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.
28 Facts About Naturi Naughton
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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.
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Naturi Naughton's father is originally from St Croix US Virgin Islands and her mother is from Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Naturi Naughton continued her musical studies at the Newark School of the Arts.
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Naturi Naughton attended St Joseph's Catholic school and Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Naturi Naughton has sung the national anthem at various events in New Jersey and attended Seton Hall University.
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In 1999, at age 15, Naturi Naughton joined Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams to form the group 3LW.
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Naturi Naughton says that the other two girls and their management had forced her out.
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Naturi Naughton recorded five tracks for the Fame soundtrack which was released on August 25,2009.
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In February 2010, when appearing on the BET talk show The Mo'Nique Show, Naturi Naughton expressed interest in recording a solo-debut album.
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However, Naturi Naughton has revealed she is instead focusing on her acting career but has not ruled out an album.
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Naturi Naughton was believed to be working with music producer Full Force at the time.
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Lil' Kim has stated that she wasn't mad at Naturi Naughton who portrayed her and that she was mad at how they portrayed her.
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Naturi Naughton was cast as Denise, an aspiring singer, in the Lionsgate remake of the 1980 film of the same name Fame.
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Naturi Naughton portrays the role of Toni Charles, a Playboy Bunny mistress to the character Lane Pryce.
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The role marked the second time Naturi Naughton portrayed a fictional Playboy Bunny.
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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.
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Naturi Naughton portrayed the role of Brenda, a Playboy Bunny who dreams of being the first African-American Playboy centerfold.
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In October 2011, Naturi Naughton appeared in an episode of the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Naturi Naughton portrays the role of a 1970s jazz club singer named Shadynasty.
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In December 2011, Naturi Naughton was announced to have been cast in the Lifetime drama television series The Client List opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt.
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Naturi Naughton portrays the role of Kendra a hard-working masseuse at a parlor.
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In September 2012, Naturi Naughton starred in the BET original film Let The Church Say Amen which is adapted from author ReShonda Tate Billingsley's 2005 best-selling novel of the same name.
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Naturi Naughton starred in the Starz drama Power as Tasha St Patrick, the wife of James "Ghost" St Patrick played by Omari Hardwick, a New York nightclub owner living a double life as a drug kingpin.
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Naturi Naughton won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for the third season.
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Naturi Naughton is set to reprise her role as Tasha in the spin-off series Power Book II: Ghost, which began airing in September 2020.
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On March 8,2021, it was announced that Naturi Naughton was to join the cast of American Broadcasting Company's music series Queens, alongside Brandy and Eve.
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In March 2017, Naturi Naughton announced that she was expecting her first child.