Saycon Sengbloh Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Saycon Sengbloh Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Saycon Sengbloh (born October , ) is an American actress and singer.

She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

and an Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for her role in Danai

Gurira's play Eclipsed in .Sengbloh was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She

first began acting at Tri-Cities School for the Visual and Performing

Arts. Sengbloh then attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia,

where she studied music and Spanish before leaving to pursue a career

in acting and music.Sengbloh has starred in a number of Broadway

musicals, including Aida, Wicked (as a standby for Elphaba), The Color

Purple, Hair, Fela!, Motown: The Musical, and Holler If Ya Hear Me.

Her breakthrough came in , when Danai Gurira cast Sengbloh in

Eclipsed, a play about five Liberian women and their tale of survival

near the end of the Second Liberian Civil War. It became the first

play with an all-black and female creative cast and team to premiere

on Broadway. Eclipsed opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in

October with positive reviews and ran until November . The following

year, it transferred to Broadway, premiering at the John Golden

Theatre with an opening on March , . Her performance received positive

reviews from critics. She won Drama Desk Award for Outstanding

Featured Actress in a Play for original Off-Broadway production, and

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for Broadway

production.Sengbloh has made her screen debut playing opposite

Kimberly Elise in the television film The Ditchdigger's Daughters. In

, she made her big screen debut appearing in the independent drama

film Funny Valentines starring Alfre Woodard. She later played small

parts in films Across the Universe, American Gangster, and well as

guest starred on television series include Law & Order and The Good

Wife.
Saycon Sengbloh Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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