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

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Born in the same month (December 1961): Andrew Lock • Andrey Perlov • Bill Hicks • Conceição Lima • David Anthony Higgins • Gary Zimmerman • Karin Kraml • Ketan J. Patel • Leila Steinberg • Lorna Tolentino • Marco Pierre White • Matthew Waterhouse • Mikey Robins • Sam Robards • Wade Williams