Anika Noni Rose Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A slight actress with a big voice, Anika Noni Rose studied at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. After learning all she could to prepare herself, she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage, getting her first break with a role in the Broadway production of Footloose. Rose's...Read More

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Aug. 27, 2008 11:00 PM ET (AP)

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The Princess and the Frog

Actors: Anika Noni Rose, David Keith, Jenifer Lewis, John Goodman

Synopsis: After being summoned back to the Mouse House by Pixar founder John Lasseter in 2006, Alladin and Treasure Planet directors Ron Clements and John Musker join forces once again for this traditionally animated 2-D fantasy for the entire family, set in New Orleans. Former Dreamgirl Anika Noni Rose Read More

12/25/09
Just Add Water

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Tracy Middendorf, Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Jonah Hill

Synopsis: Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long star in prolific actor-turned-writer/director Hart Bochner's quirky romantic comedy about the efforts of a simple blue collar worker to reconnect with his childhood love and finally clean up his crime infested California neighborhood. Ray Read More

2008
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Actors: Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, David Oyelowo, Idris Elba

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Minghella teams with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard Curtis to adapt author Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling series of novels in this film concerning Botswana's only female-owned detective agency. The first feature film shot entirely in the Read More

2008
The Starter Wife

Actors: Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Judy Davis, Miranda Otto, Anika Noni Rose, Peter Jacobson

Synopsis: Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the six-part miniseries The Starter Wife starred former Will & Grace leading lady Debra Messing as Molly Kagan, an archetypal "Hollywood wife" who for ten years had enjoyed the perks and privileges of being married to powerful studio Read More

2007
Dreamgirls

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal

Synopsis: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles Read More

12/15/06
Wrestling with Angels: Playright Tony Kushner

Actors: Tony Kushner, Oskar Eustis, Maurice Sendak, William Kushner, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the rich life of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner in a film that traces Kushner's career from his 2001 play Homebody/Kabul through his 2004 collaboration with Maurice Sendak on a revised version of Brundibar. A trip to Kushner's hometown Read More

10/4/06
Surviving Christmas

Actors: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer Read More

10/22/04
From Justin to Kelly

Actors: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess, Anika Noni Rose, Greg Siff

Synopsis: From the producer and writer of Spice World and the director of She's All That comes this musical comedy inspired by and featuring the stars of Fox's hit reality show American Idol. Starring the winner and runner-up of the show's first season, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, as slightly Read More

6/20/03