Anika Noni Rose

Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose is known around the world for having voiced Princess Tiana in Disney’s The Princess and The Frog, featuring the first African American Disney Princess. The film received three Academy Award nominations and Anika became the youngest inductee to be honored as a Disney Legend. She is the author of the children’s book Tiana’s Perfect Plan. Anika also stars as Afia in the Disney movie, Mufasa: The Lion King, and as Squeal of Fortune in Zootopia 2.

She was last seen on the small screen in “Let The Right One In,” based on the internationally best-selling novel of the same name. She drew notice for her acclaimed performance as Regina in Netflix’s most-watched limited series to date, “Maid,” opposite Margaret Qualley and Nick Robinson, for which she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special at the 2022 NAACP Image Awards.

Anika appeared in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Netflix), Lena Waithe’s horror anthology “Them” (Amazon) and “Little Fires Everywhere” (Hulu) with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Additionally, Anika led the cast of BET’s series “The Quad” as Eva Fletcher for two seasons and in 2017, she starred in the film Everything, Everything based on the popular young adult novel of the same name by Nicola Yoon.

Continuing to take on iconic characters, Anika starred in the History Channel’s adaption of “Roots” as Kizzy (NAACP Image Award nomination). On the big screen, Anika starred as Lorell Robinson in Dreamgirls (AFI Ensemble Award, SAG Award nomination, Grammy Award nomination).

Additional television and film credits include: “Power,” “The Good Wife,” “The Simpsons,” “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,” For Colored Girls, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Assassination Nation.

Anika most recently starred in the critically acclaimed revival of Uncle Vanya on Broadway alongside Steve Carell. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Caroline, or Change (Lucille Lortel Award, Theatre World Award, Obie Award, Clarence Derwent Award, Drama Desk nomination). Additional Broadway credits: A Raisin in the Sun (Tony Award nomination and Outer Critics Circle nomination), Footloose. Additional stage credits include Carmen Jones for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award, an AUDELCO Award, and received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations; the New York Philharmonic's production of Company, and Broadway’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Debbie Allen.

A 12-time NAACP Image Award nominee, including the most recent nomination for her voice work as Marion Lavorre in “The Mighty Nein” on Amazon, Anika has voiced many audiobooks, and has performed sold out concerts all over the world, including singing at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican.