THE WIZ LIVE's Uzo Aduba Wins Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

By: Sep. 20, 2015
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Broadway baby Uzo Aduba (GODSPELL) has won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. This is Aduba's second Emmy for the role of Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. Interestingly, her first win was for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, so she now has the distinction of having two different awards for the same role.

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American-born Nigerian actress Uzo Aduba plays wacky Litchfield Penitentiary inmate "Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren on Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

The acclaimed actress made her Broadway debut in 2007 as "Toby" in Coram Boy. She went on to join the original revival cast of Godspell where she performed at Manhattan's Circle in THE SQUARE Theater between 2011 and 2012.

Aduba's television debut came in 2012 when she played a nurse in the CBS drama Blue Bloods.


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