LaChanze

LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. In 2023, LaChanze received two more Tony Awards, this time as a producer. She served as co-producer on Kimberly Akimbo, which won the Tony for Best New Musical and Topdog/Underdog, which won for Best Revival of a Play.

16 December 1961

Born on the same birth date (16 December 1961): André Andersen • Bill Hicks • Jon Tenney • Sam Robards • Shane Black

Born on the same birth day (16 December): Arthur C. Clarke • Clifford Robinson (basketball, born 1966) • Craig White • Cy Leslie • Donald Carcieri • François-Adrien Boieldieu • John Selden • Kim Chwa-chin • Mark Heard • Pat Van Den Hauwe • Ruben Nirvi • Shane Black • Tom Stern (cinematographer) • Valerie Chow • Viktor Bunyakovsky

Born in the same month (December 1961): Ann Coulter • Bill Hicks • Brian Orser • David Lovering • Freddie Spencer • Karin Kraml • Kevin Granata • Lorna Tolentino • Marco Pierre White • Mike Keneally • Nia Peeples • Safra Catz • Sam Robards