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Tonya Pinkins (born May 30, 1952) is an American television, film and theater actress and author known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera ''All My Children'' and for her roles on Broadway. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, and has won the Obie, 2 Lortel Awards, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, AUDLECO, Garland, LA Drama Critic's, Clarence Derwent and NAACP Theater Awards. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Noel, Joseph Jefferson, NACCP Image, Soap Opera Digest and Ovation awards. She won the Tony for ''Jelly's Last Jam''. ==Biography== Pinkins was born in Chicago, Illinois. She has four children. Her father was a police officer and insurance salesman and her mother is a former postal worker. She has two brothers, Eric Swoope and Thomas Swoope and a sister Tamera Swoope from whom she is estranged. She was interested in the arts from a young age. In high school, she studied acting at the Goodman Theatre Young People's Program. Aged 18, she briefly attended college and decided to pursue an acting career instead. She later returned to college, earning an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in Chicago, followed by graduate work at Carnegie Mellon's music theater program, and a year at California Western School of Law in San Diego. Pinkins is probably most admired for her stage work. She won a Tony Award for her performance as Sweet Anita in ''Jelly's Last Jam''. She was nominated for her roles in ''Play On!'' and in ''Caroline, or Change'', where she played the title role. Her additional Broadway credits include ''Merrily We Roll Along'', ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'', ''The Wild Party'', ''House of Flowers'', ''Radio Golf'', ''A Time To Kill'' 〔(Playbill News: Her Shining Hour: Tonya Pinkins Sings Arlen )〕 and ''Holler If Ya Hear Me''. 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.〔For a photo of Tonya Pinkins in the role of Mopsa in ''The Winter's Tale'', see Riverside Shakespeare Company〕 In 2011, 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. She reprised her role in the Playwrights Horizons in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater,〔Broadway.com Staff. ("Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins to Star in Milk Like Sugar at Playwrights Horizons" ). Broadway.com, September 23, 2011〕 and garnered a 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. In 2012 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. The play also Marsha Stephanie Blake, Ron Cephas Jones, Saycon Sengbloh, Lloyd Watts, Charlie Hudson III, Nicholas Christopher, Corey Hawkins, Ron Cephas Jones and Joaquina Kalukango. In 2014, Pinkins appeared in New Federal Theatre's revival of Ed Bullins' ''The Fabulous Miss Marie'' opposite Roscoe Orman; in the Broadway production of ''Holler If Ya Hear Me''; and the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' ''War'' at Yale Repertory. She has also had a prolific television career making guest appearances on such television shows as ''Army Wives'', ''24'', ''Law & Order'', ''The Cosby Show'', ''Cold Case'', ''Criminal Minds'', and ''The Guardian'' among others. During the mid-1980s Pinkins created the role of Heather Dalton on the CBS soap, ''As the World Turns''. In 1991 she was cast as Livia Frye in ''All My Children''. Pinkins left ''All My Children'' in 1995 but returned to her role in 2003. She was later put on contract with the show from March 2004 until June 2006, when she was downgraded to recurring status. She has played Amala Motobo on the popular television show ''24''. She has appeared in several films in supporting roles, including ''Newlyweeds'', ''Home'', ''Fading Gigolo'' opposite Woody Allen, ''Enchanted'', ''Premium'', ''Romance & Cigarettes'', Noah's Arc: Jumping The Broom and ''Above the Rim'' among others.〔 Pinkins performs several cabaret shows including ''Bring On The Men'' with Brad Simmons, ''Tonya Pinkins UnPlugged'' at The National Black Theater Festival and ''Hurricane Ethel''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tonya Pinkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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