14 Facts About Valarie Pettiford

Valarie Pettiford received a Tony Award nomination for her role in the broadway production Fosse.

Miss Valarie Pettiford appears to be a superbly trained dancer, schooled in balletic finesse and Broadway-style razzmatazz - and a stunning presence.

Valarie Pettiford is an exciting actress who has a special quality needed to ignite a number such as America.

Valarie Pettiford received a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for her role in the Broadway production Fosse from 1998 to 1999.

In 2007, Valarie Pettiford won the Backstage Bistro Award for her cabaret debut at the Metropolitan Room in New York City, and won an NAACP Theatre Award for her lead role in The Wild Party.

In 1978, at age 17 and enrolled at the High School of Performing Arts, Valarie Pettiford did her first-ever movie work as part of the large ensemble in the film The Wiz.

Valarie Pettiford starred as Mariah Carey's mother in the 2001 film Glitter, had a role in Stomp the Yard in 2007, and played Aunt Geneva in the 2011 film, Jumping the Broom.

Valarie Pettiford went on to play a reoccurring role as Carol Dante, the wife of series-regular character Marcus Dante, in the 2021 reboot of the The Equalizer.

Valarie Pettiford appeared in the HBO pilot Anatomy of Hope, directed by JJ Abrams.

Valarie Pettiford plays a recurring role as the wife to Harold Cooper, Assistant Director of the FBI Counter-Terrorism Division, on the NBC drama The Blacklist.

Valarie Pettiford has starred in the TV series A Discovery of Witches as the witch Emily Mather.

In September 2024, it was announced Valarie Pettiford had joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in the role of Amy Lewis.

Valarie Pettiford was born on July 8,1960, in Queens, to Ralph and Blanch Valarie Pettiford, and graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in 1978.

Valarie Pettiford is married to her manager, actor and former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tony Rader.