Adrienne Warren

Adrienne Warren is the daughter of two high school coaches. She began her performance career in church.^[1]

Warren studied at Marymount Manhattan College, and while there joined a rock band and performed with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.^[2]

Warren began her career performing in musicals The Wiz and Dreamgirls before making her Broadway debut in the musical Bring It On in 2012. In 2016, she starred in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, for which she received Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination.^[3] Warren also appeared in a number of television series, including Blue Bloods, Orange Is the New Black, and Black Box.

In 2018, Warren was cast as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina. She received critical praise for her performance as Turner and a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination.^[4][5][1][6] The following year, she performed in the Broadway production, winning the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2021.^[3]

In October 2020, it was announced that Warren was cast in her first television leading role in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement playing activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till.^[7]

In December 2020, Warren narrated the audiobook of Tina Turner's memoir Happiness Becomes You, which was released by the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books.^[8]

In September 2021, Warren was cast in the epic film The Woman King starring Viola Davis. Inspired by true events from the 18th and 19th centuries Kingdom of Dahomey in Africa, Warren plays a warrior.^[9]

Theatre

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Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
2009	The Wiz	Ensemble u/s Dorothy	City Center, Encores! production	[10]
2009–10	Dreamgirls	Lorell Robinson	Touring Production	[11]
2011–12	Bring It On	Danielle	National Tour St. James Theatre, Broadway Debut	[11][4]
2016	Shuffle Along	Gertrude Saunders Florence Mills	Music Box Theatre, Broadway	[12]
2017	Damn Yankees	Gloria Thorpe	Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Broadway	[13]
2018-19	Tina	Tina Turner	Aldwych Theatre, West End	[14]
2019–21			Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway	[15]
2025	The Last Five Years	Cathy Hiatt	Hudson Theatre, Broadway	[16]

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Film

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†	Denotes works that have not yet been released

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2022	The Woman King	Ode
2023	Rustin	Claudia Taylor

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Blue Bloods	Rachel Manning	Episode: "Ends and Means"
	Orange Is the New Black	Dina	Episode: "Bora Bora Bora"
	People in New Jersey	Nina	Television pilot
2014	Black Box	Carrie Waylan	Episode: "Sweet Lies Lies"
	Irreversible	Waitress	Television pilot
2015	Point of Honor	Abby	Television pilot
	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Maternity	Episode: "Paid Family Leave"
2016	Royal Pains	Wedding Guest	Episode: "The Good News Is..."
2017	Quantico	Malory Haynes	Episode: "MOCKINGBIRD"
	Perfect Citizen	Ingrid Tate	Television pilot
	The Tap	Nia Murphey	Television pilot
2022	Women of the Movement	Mamie Till-Mobley	Lead role
2023	Black Cake	Benny Bennett	Lead role
2024	The Diplomat	CIA officer	Episode: "The Ides of March"
	Doctor Odyssey	Dominique	Episode: "Quackers"

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• African-American Tony nominees and winners