Name Trazana Beverley Role Film actress | Movies Beloved, Never Again | |
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Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Similar People Ntozake Shange, Oz Scott, Eric Schaeffer, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Papp | ||
Education Tisch School of the Arts |
ATW's Working in the Theatre #117/118 Performance (Fall 1987)
Trezana Beverley is an American stage and film actress. She received an MFA in Acting from New York University's Graduate Acting Program.
She was the first African-American actress to receive a Tony Award for "Best Featured Actress in a Play" (for the 1977 Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf), having previously won a Theatre World Award for the Off-Broadway production. She shared a cast Obie Award for the latter. She also won the 1977 Theatre World and Drama Desk Awards for the Broadway version.
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