Danielle Brooks
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Danielle Brooks is an American actress. After studying drama at the Juilliard School she earned her breakthrough in television before expanding to theater and film. She has received a Grammy Award as
Brooks at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival
Brooks with the cast of Orange is the New Black in 2014
Brooks at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con
Orange Is the New Black
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Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. It is based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, abo
Danielle Brooks
…Film Award, two Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. Her breakthrough role was as prison inmate Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). She made her Broadway debut as Sofia in the musical revival of The Color Purple (2015), earning a nomination for a Tony Award as well as…
The series cast at The Paley Center For Media's PaleyFest 2014 event honoring the show