Biography
Danielle Brooks is an American actress and singer. She graduated from the Juilliard School and began her professional career in theatre and television.
Brooks is best known for her role as Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Leota Adebayo in the HBO series Peacemaker (2022–). She played Sofia in the 2023 film The Color Purple and portrayed Dawn in A Minecraft Movie (2025).
