Tonya Pinkins
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
The Life of Peter Gottlieb
2024
as Dean Fendleman
Women of the Movement
2022
as Alma
East New York
2022
as Shirley Haywood
The Surrogate
2021
as Karen Weatherston-Harris
Red Pill
2021
as Cassandra
Run the World
2021
as Gwen Greene
The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
2021
as Narradora
The Artist's Wife
2020
as Liza Caldwell
The School for Wives
2020
as Arnolphe
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2019
as Burgess
Aardvark
2018
as Abigail
Mr. Talented
2018
as Valerie Brown
My Days of Mercy
2018
as Agatha
Random Acts of Flyness
2018
as Ripa The Reaper
God Friended Me
2018
as Marsha
An Act of Terror
2017
as Mary Church Terrell
The Book of Henry
2017
as Principal Wilder
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016
as Self
Collective: Unconscious
2016
as Ripa the Reaper
Everybody Dies!
2016
as Ripa the Reaper
11.22.63
2016
as Mia Mimi Corcoran
Bull
2016
as Judge Maynard
Rasheeda Speaking
2015
as Jaclyn
Fear the Walking Dead
2015
as Martha
Gotham
2014
as Ethel Peabody
The Strain
2014
as Francis
Madam Secretary
2014
as Susan Thomas
Madam Secretary
2014
as Susan Thompson
Home
2013
as Esmin
Newlyweeds
2013
as Patrice
Hostages
2013
as Beth Nix
Scandal
2012
as Sandra
Elementary
2012
as Judge Marilyn Whitfield
Nurse Jackie
2009
as Charlane
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
2008
as Mrs. Robinson
Enchanted
2007
as Phoebe Banks
Army Wives
2007
as Viola Crawford
Romance & Cigarettes
2006
as Female Medic
The Closer
2005
as Donna Taft
Criminal Minds
2005
as Det. Nora Bennett
Black in the 80s
2005
as Self
Cold Case
2003
as Dina Miller
The Guardian
2001
as Melinda Tralins
24
2001
as Alama Matobo
University Hospital
1995
Against Their Will
1994
as Sondra
Above the Rim
1994
as Mailika
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
1992
as Self
Law & Order
1990
as Woman
Law & Order
1990
as Angela Young
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989
as Leslie
Hotshot
1987
Crime Story
1986
as Junkie Prostitute
The Cosby Show
1984
as Iris
American Dream
1981
Great Performances
1971
as Self
All My Children
1970