1. Tonya Pinkins's award-winning debut feature film Red Pill was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival, won the Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Feature at The Mykonos International Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Lulea Film Festival, and is nominated for awards in numerous festivals around the globe.
Tonya Pinkins is known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera All My Children and for her roles on Broadway.
Tonya Pinkins has been nominated for the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Noel, Joseph Jefferson, NAACP Image, Soap Opera Digest, and Ovation Awards.
Tonya Pinkins won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Jelly's Last Jam.
Tonya Pinkins later returned to college, earning an undergraduate degree from Columbia College Chicago in 1996, followed by a year at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
Tonya Pinkins won a Tony Award for her performance as Sweet Anita in Jelly's Last Jam.
Tonya Pinkins has performed in several off-Broadway productions, including the comic role of Mopsa, the Shepherdess, in The Winter's Tale produced by the Riverside Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Center in 1983.
In 2011, Tonya Pinkins starred in the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar at La Jolla Playhouse, and received a 2012 Craig Noel nomination for Best featured Actress in a Play.
Tonya Pinkins reprised her role in the Playwrights Horizons in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and garnered a 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.
In 2012, Tonya Pinkins starred in Katori Hall's play Hurt Village, the gritty drama about life and change in a Memphis housing project made its world-premiere at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company as part of the theatre's inaugural season.
Tonya Pinkins left All My Children in 1995 but returned to her role in 2003.
Tonya Pinkins was later put on contract with the show from March 2004 until June 2006, when she was downgraded to recurring status.
Tonya Pinkins wrote, directed, and starred as Cassandra in Red Pill, to be released in 2020.