1. Tracie Thoms portrayed Charlotte in the Broadway revival of Falsettos.
17 Facts About Tracie Thoms
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Tracie Thoms started studying acting at age ten and later on attended the Baltimore School for the Arts.
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Tracie Thoms earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University in 1997.
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Tracie Thoms then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30, which included actors Lee Pace and Anthony Mackie.
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Tracie Thoms played the part of Sasha in the US version of the television series As If, which was cancelled after three episodes.
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Tracie Thoms has appeared in several movies, most notably in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rent in which she plays Joanne Jefferson, lawyer and lover of Maureen Johnson.
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Tracie Thoms took over the role from Fredi Walker, who played Joanne in the original Broadway production of Rent but, at age 43, was deemed too old to reprise the role.
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Tracie Thoms was featured in the 2002 Comedy Central film Porn 'n Chicken and the 2004 films Brother to Brother and The Warrior Class.
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Tracie Thoms appeared in the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada as Lily.
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Tracie Thoms has completed filming on the City Lights Pictures movie Descent along with Rent co-stars Wilson Jermaine Heredia and Rosario Dawson and will soon begin filming Jimmie with co-stars Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight.
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Tracie Thoms appeared in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, alongside Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
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Tracie Thoms made her Broadway debut in Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow.
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Tracie Thoms has appeared in several off-Broadway and regional productions, including Up Against the Wind, The Oedipus Plays, A Raisin in the Sun Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Exonerated and The Antigone Project.
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From November 2010 through January 2011, Tracie Thoms starred in Show at Barre's For The Record: John Hughes, alongside Barrett Foa, Von Smith and Ty Taylor.
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Tracie Thoms played Etta, Diana Prince's personal assistant, in NBC's Wonder Woman pilot.
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Tracie Thoms had a role in the 2014 version of Annie, playing Annie's "fake mother", a character based on Lily St Regis in the original musical.
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In 2016, Tracie Thoms was Emmy nominated in the Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category for "Send Me: An Original Web Series" which was released on BET.