Tracie Thoms was born in the year 1975. She is a stage actress, a singer and a television actress. She is known for the roles she had in rent, Death Proof, The Devil Wears Prada and Cold Case. She was also in the television series of Fox that was short lived under the name of Wonderfalls.


From her biography, Tracie Thoms was born and also grew up in the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. Her parents are Donald H Thoms and Mariana. Her father was a television director and VP programming of PBS. For her siblings, she has a brother called Austin. She started to learn how to act when she was 10 years old and afterwards, she attended Baltimore School of Arts.

Tracie Thoms got her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Howard University in the year 1997 and afterwards she attended Julliard School at its drama division where she was the member of Group 30. It also included other actors like Anthony Mackie and Lee Pace.

Tracie Thoms became to be well known when she played as Mahandra MacGinty at television show under the name Wonderfalls. She played Sasha’s Part In US version of AS If television series. It was cancelled with three episodes. Her latest role was being a cast of Cold Case which is a CBS Crime drama. She was an homicide detective under the name of Kat Miller. She had also made guest appearance at The Shield and Law & Order.

She appeared in many movies like Broadway musical Rent where she was Joanne Jefferson, a lawyer and also a lover of Maureen Johnson. She took up the role which was for Fredi Walker who was playing as Joanne with the original production. When she was at 43 years, she was considered to be too old. Before being part of the cast, she was a fan of the show and had been at Broadway to see it many times. She got featured in the 2002 Comedy Central known as Porn’s Chicken of 2004 Brother to Brother and of The Warrior Class. She appeared in The Devils Wears Prada in 2006 when she had the role of Lily.

She completed filming Descent movie from City Lights Picture with her Rent Co-stars Wilson Jermaine Heredia with Rosario Dawson. She will start to film Jimmie with Brian McKnight and Vanessa Williams soon. She was in Death proof of Quentin Tarantino together with Zoe Bell, Mary Elizabeth and Rosario Dawson. She had a role in Annie where she was her fake mother and it is a based on St Regis musical. She was also personal assistant to Diana in Wonder Woman pilot of NBC. She is said to be a gay and she is in relationship with Rosario Dawson. She has not record of being married before and her net worth is 1 million dollars.

Last Modified: May 10, 2020


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