Played by Anika Noni Rose
Balancing life as a single mother with her career as a homicide detective, her son befriends the girl next door. She’s thrilled — until she starts to suspect something’s off with their new neighbors.
Balancing life as a single mother with her career as a homicide detective, her son befriends the girl next door. She’s thrilled — until she starts to suspect something’s off with their new neighbors.
Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose was recently seen in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey which she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards. She also appeared in Lena Waithe’s horror anthology Them and Little Fires Everywhere with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Additionally, Anika led the cast of The Quad as Eva Fletcher for two seasons and in 2017, she starred in the film Everything, Everything based off the popular young adult novel of the same name by Nicola Yoon. Next up, Anika is set to appear in the limited series Maid opposite Margaret Qualley and Nick Robinson.
Previously, Anika starred in an adaptation of Roots as Kizzy (NAACP Image Award nomination). On the big screen, Anika starred as Lorell Robinson in Dreamgirls (AFI Ensemble Award, SAG Award nomination, Grammy Award nomination). Television credits include: Them, Little Fires Everywhere, The Quad, Power, The Good Wife, The Simpsons, the miniseries Roots, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Rose’s film credits include Dreamgirls; For Colored Girls; Half of A Yellow Sun; Everything, Everything; and Assassination Nation.
Anika voiced Princess Tiana in The Princess and The Frog, featuring the first African American Princess. The film received three Oscar nominations and Anika became the youngest inductee to ever be honored as a Disney Legend.
Anika won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Caroline, or Change (Lucille Lortel Award, Theatre World Award, Obie Award, Clarence Derwent Award, Drama Desk nomination). Additional Broadway credits: A Raisin in the Sun (Tony Award nomination and Outer Critics Circle nomination), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Footloose. Additional stage credits include Carmen Jones for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award, an AUDELCO award and received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations; the New York Philharmonic's production of Company and Broadway’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof directed by Debbie Allen.
A three-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Rose has voiced many audiobooks, and has performed all over the world, including singing at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican.