Danielle Brooks
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- Is the daughter of a minister and a deacon.
- Began acting at 6 years old in her church's theater program.
- Auditioned for Juilliard with monologues from August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.
- Was appearing in both the Shakespeare Theater Company production of The Servant of Two Masters and Blacken the Bubble in Harlem when she was offered her role in Orange is the New Black.