Chanté Adams landed the lead in the Netflix biopic Roxanne Roxanne—and a starring role in the nouveau Black Love classic The Photograph shortly thereafter.
Now, fresh off of being directed by Denzel Washington in A Journal for Jordan and sharing a Broadway stage with Phylicia Rashad, Adams has secured yet another leading part, this time on a Prime Original series.Her big, bright smile and inquisitive eyes alone, framed today by stylishly oversized tortoiseshell glasses, would make Adams a shoo-in for the stereotypical pretty Black sidekick role that many a young Hollywood ingenue has had to take to get her start or stay afloat.
But this actress has had the unique fortune of being cast in hearty, emotional roles that show the depth and range of Black women’s experiences.As we chat, Adams is on the brink of wrapping her first-ever Broadway role in Skeleton Crew, where she portrays an ambitious, pregnant factory worker from her beloved hometown of Detroit.
Booking back-to-back films, and not having acted in any plays since she graduated from college, Adams was admittedly a bit rusty with live performing.
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