Tonya Pinkins
Birthday
1962/05/30 (62 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
Acting
(2005) Romance & Cigarettes
as Female Medic
(2017) An Act of Terror
as Mary Church Terrell
(2013) Home
as Esmin
(2013) Newlyweeds
as Patrice
(1989) See No Evil, Hear No Evil
as Leslie
(1994) Against Their Will: Women in Prison
as Sondra
(2025) The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
(1981) American Dream
as ---
(2018) Aardvark
as Abigail
(2017) The Book of Henry
as Principal Wilder
(2024) The Life of Peter Gottlieb
as Dean Fendleman
(2018) Mr. Talented
as Valerie Brown
(1992) Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
as Herself
(1994) Above the Rim
as Mailika
(2016) Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
as Self
(2021) The Surrogate
as Karen Weatherston-Harris
(2018) My Days of Mercy
as Agatha
(2016) Collective: Unconscious
as Ripa the Reaper
(2007) Enchanted
as Phoebe Banks
(2020) The Artist's Wife
as Liza Caldwell
(2015) Rasheeda Speaking
as Jaclyn
(2020) The School for Wives
as Arnolphe
(2008) Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Robinson
(2016) Everybody Dies!
as Ripa the Reaper
(2021) Red Pill
as Cassandra
(1990) Law & Order
as Woman
(2005) The Closer
as Donna Taft
(2001) The Guardian
as ---
(1984) The Cosby Show
as Iris
(2003) Cold Case
as Dina Miller
(2001) 24
as ---
(2005) Criminal Minds
as Det. Nora Bennett
(2007) Army Wives
as ---
(2022) Women of the Movement
as Alma
(1995) University Hospital
as ---
(2005) Black in the 80s
as ---
(1970) All My Children
as ---
(2021) Run the World
as Gwen Greene
(2016) 11.22.63
as Mia Mimi Corcoran
(2013) Hostages
as Beth Nix
(2014) Gotham
as Ethel Peabody
(2018) Random Acts of Flyness
as Ripa The Reaper
(2019) Wu-Tang: An American Saga
as Burgess
(2021) The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
as Narradora
(2012) Scandal
as Sandra
(1986) Crime Story
as Junkie Prostitute
(2022) East New York
as Shirley Haywood
(2015) Fear the Walking Dead
as Martha
(2016) Bull
as Judge Maynard
(1990) Law & Order
as Angela Young
(2018) God Friended Me
as Marsha
(2012) Elementary
as Judge Marilyn Whitfield
(2014) The Strain
as Francis
(2007) Army Wives
as Viola Crawford
(1971) Great Performances
as Self