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...
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Romance & Cigarettes
As Female Medic
An Act of Terror
As Mary Church Terrell
Home
As Esmin
Newlyweeds
As Patrice
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
As Leslie
Against Their Will
As Sondra
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
As Horror Film Expert
American Dream
Aardvark
As Abigail
The Book of Henry
As Principal Wilder
The Life of Peter Gottlieb
As Dean Fendleman
Mr. Talented
As Valerie Brown
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
As Herself
Above the Rim
As Mailika
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
As Self
The Surrogate
As Karen Weatherston-Harris
My Days of Mercy
As Agatha
Collective: Unconscious
As Ripa the Reaper
Enchanted
As Phoebe Banks
The Artist's Wife
As Liza Caldwell
Rasheeda Speaking
As Jaclyn
The School for Wives
As Arnolphe
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
As Mrs. Robinson
Everybody Dies!
As Ripa the Reaper
Red Pill
As Cassandra
Law & Order
As Woman
The Closer
As Donna Taft
The Guardian
As Melinda Tralins
The Cosby Show
As Iris
Cold Case
As Dina Miller
24
Criminal Minds
As Det. Nora Bennett
Army Wives
Women of the Movement
As Alma
University Hospital
Black in the 80s
All My Children
Run the World
As Gwen Greene
11.22.63
As Mia Mimi Corcoran
Hostages
As Beth Nix
Gotham
As Ethel Peabody
Random Acts of Flyness
As Ripa The Reaper
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
As Burgess
The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
As Narradora
Scandal
As Sandra
Crime Story
As Junkie Prostitute
East New York
As Shirley Haywood
Fear the Walking Dead
As Martha
Bull
As Judge Maynard
God Friended Me
As Marsha
Elementary
As Judge Marilyn Whitfield
The Strain
As Francis
Great Performances
As Self
Madam Secretary
As Susan Thomas
