People
Tonya Pinkins
Biography:
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide as Horror Film Expert | 2025-09-18 |
The Life of Peter Gottlieb as Dean Fendleman | 2024-09-24 |
The Surrogate as Karen Weatherston-Harris | 2021-07-09 |
Red Pill as Cassandra | 2021-03-12 |
The School for Wives as Arnolphe | 2020-10-24 |
The Artist's Wife as Liza Caldwell | 2020-09-25 |
Mr. Talented as Valerie Brown | 2018-08-11 |
Aardvark as Abigail | 2018-04-13 |
My Days of Mercy as Agatha | 2018-03-31 |
The Book of Henry as Principal Wilder | 2017-06-16 |
An Act of Terror as Mary Church Terrell | 2017-01-01 |
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened... as Self | 2016-11-18 |
Collective: Unconscious as Ripa the Reaper | 2016-08-05 |
Everybody Dies! as Ripa the Reaper | 2016-03-03 |
Rasheeda Speaking as Jaclyn | 2015-10-01 |
Home as Esmin | 2013-11-22 |
Newlyweeds as Patrice | 2013-09-18 |
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom as Mrs. Robinson | 2008-10-26 |
Enchanted as Phoebe Banks | 2007-11-20 |
Romance & Cigarettes as Female Medic | 2005-09-13 |
Against Their Will: Women in Prison as Sondra | 1994-10-29 |
Above the Rim as Mailika | 1994-03-23 |
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway as Herself | 1992-11-02 |
See No Evil, Hear No Evil as Leslie | 1989-05-12 |
American Dream | 1981-04-26 |