LaChanze
Sign in to saveLaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, theater producer, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received four more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, The Outsiders, and Purpose.
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LaChanze attended the University of Arts in Philadelphia as a theater dance major where she landed a role as a tap dancer in an ensemble production of Uptown…It's Hot. After performing at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, LaChanze and the cast were off to Broadway. Since that fateful trip, she has starred in the Broadway productions of Once on This Island for which she received Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Ragtime and Company. Off-Broadway LaChanze has starred in Dessa Rose which brought
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- LaChanze
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- LaChanze at the 2022 Tony Awards
- Person.birth_name
- Rhonda LaChanze Sapp
- Person.birth_place
- St. Augustine, Florida, U.S.
- Person.othername
- LaChanze Sapp, La Chanze Sapp-Gooding, R. Lachanze Sapp
- Person.occupation
- Actress, theater producer, singer, dancer
- Person.children
- 2, including Celia Rose Gooding
- Person.yearsactive
- 1986–present
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LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, theater producer, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received four more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, The Outsiders, and Purpose.
==Career== LaChanze's first summer job was as a tap dancer in the ensemble of ''Uptown... It's Hot! at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show opened on Broadway in January 1986, where LaChanze began her professional career in the theater.
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