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Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose was recently seen in the Showtime series, Let the Right One In. 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.

Last year, Anika hosted the third season of the Being Seen Podcast where she led important conversations on in-depth exploration of the Black female experience, told through ten episodes that explore the ways in which we inhabit spaces likes power, freedom, desire and safety.  

Rose 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 off the popular young adult novel of the same name by Nicola Yoon. 

Previously, Anika starred in 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). Television credits include: Them, Little Fires Everywhere, The Quad, Power, The Good Wife, The Simpsons, the miniseries Roots, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency for HBO. Rose’s film credits include Dreamgirls; For Colored Girls; Half of A Yellow Sun; Everything, Everything; and Assassination Nation.

Anika voiced ‘Princess Tiana’ in Disney’s The Princess and The Frog, featuring the first African American Disney ‘Princess.’ The film received three Oscar nominations and Anika became the youngest inductee to ever be honored as a Disney Legend.

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), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 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. She will appear this spring on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of _Uncle Vanya _opposite Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper and Alfred Molina.

A nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Rose has voiced many audiobooks, and has performed all over the world, including singing at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican.