Tonya Pinkins
Acting
Born: 1962-05-30 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
🎬 Movies (20)
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
2025
Horror Film Expert
The Life of Peter Gottlieb
2024
Dean Fendleman
The Surrogate
2021
Karen Weatherston-Harris
Red Pill
2021
Cassandra
The School for Wives
2020
Arnolphe
The Artist's Wife
2020
Liza Caldwell
Mr. Talented
2018
Valerie Brown
Aardvark
2018
Abigail
My Days of Mercy
2018
Agatha
The Book of Henry
2017
Principal Wilder
An Act of Terror
2017
Mary Church Terrell
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016
Self
Collective: Unconscious
2016
Ripa the Reaper
Everybody Dies!
2016
Ripa the Reaper
Rasheeda Speaking
2015
Jaclyn
Home
2013
Esmin
Newlyweeds
2013
Patrice
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
2008
Mrs. Robinson
Enchanted
2007
Phoebe Banks
Romance & Cigarettes
2005
Female Medic
📺 TV Shows (20)
East New York
2022
Shirley Haywood
Women of the Movement
2022
Alma
The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
2021
Narradora
Run the World
2021
Gwen Greene
Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2019
Burgess
God Friended Me
2018
Marsha
Random Acts of Flyness
2018
Ripa The Reaper
Bull
2016
Judge Maynard
11.22.63
2016
Mia Mimi Corcoran
Fear the Walking Dead
2015
Martha
Gotham
2014
Ethel Peabody
Madam Secretary
2014
Susan Thomas
Madam Secretary
2014
Susan Thompson
The Strain
2014
Francis
Hostages
2013
Beth Nix
Elementary
2012
Judge Marilyn Whitfield
Scandal
2012
Sandra
Nurse Jackie
2009
Charlane
Army Wives
2007
Viola Crawford
Criminal Minds
2005
Det. Nora Bennett