Actor
Tonya Pinkins
May 30, 1962 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tonya 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.
Notable work
6.8Enchanted (2007)
as Phoebe Banks
7.6Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
as Martha
8.3Criminal Minds (2005)
as Det. Nora Bennett
7.6Gotham (2014)
as Ethel Peabody
7.5The Strain (2014)
as Francis
7.6Elementary (2012)
as Judge Marilyn Whitfield
7.824 (2001)
as Alama Matobo
7.811.22.63 (2016)
as Mia Mimi Corcoran
7.5The Book of Henry (2017)
as Principal Wilder
6.8See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
as Leslie
7.3Law & Order (1990)
as Woman and as Angela Young
7.2Scandal (2012)
as Sandra
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