1989-09-17 ( 35 years old ) in Augusta, Georgia, USA
Danielle Brooks (born September 17, 1989) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as prison inmate Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019).
In 2015, Brooks made her Broadway debut in the musical revival of The Color Purple as Sofia, for which she received a nomination for a Tony Award and won a Grammy Award. In 2023, Brooks reprised her role as Sofia in the film adaptation of The Color Purple and was nominated for an Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, and Golden Globe Award for her performance. In 2021, she played gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in the made-for-television biographical film Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie as an executive producer.
In 2022, Brooks hosted Netflix's reality series Instant Dream Home and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Program Host. The same year, Brooks starred in the superhero series Peacemaker (2022–present) and returned to Broadway in the revival of the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She has since starred in the fantasy adventure comedy A Minecraft Movie.
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Movies
Oh. What. Fun.
2025-12-02
The Bad Guys 2
2025-07-30
A Minecraft Movie
2025-03-31
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023-12-28
The Color Purple
2023-12-25
Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
2021-04-03
All the Little Things We Kill
2021-01-22
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020-10-27
Eat Wheaties!
2020-09-25
Clemency
2019-12-27
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
2019-11-22
The Day Shall Come
2019-10-11
Sadie
2018-10-12
Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image
2017-06-22
I Dream Too Much
2016-06-21
The Angry Birds Movie
2016-05-11
The Same Difference
2015-06-23
Time Out of Mind
2014-09-07
Fireproof
2008-09-26
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