What Happened to Anika Noni Rose ?

[bigbelterbaby]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:01am

She was really hot for awhile and now she's not working D:

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:09am

One of my favorite performers and would love to see her back on Broadway. I thought she was thrilling in For Colored Girls and think she'd make a fantastic Sarah in Ragtime

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:25am

Saw her this season on Elementary, as an old friend of Watson (Lucy Liu). I think she works quite a bit on tv, but yes, we miss her glorious voice on Broadway.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:51am

Ms. Rose's career is quite active in both television and motion pictures as I type this.

As of right now, she has 2 (two) motion pictures coming out in 2013: AS COOL AS I AM with Claire Danes and James Marsden and HALF OF A YELLOW SUN with Thandie Newton.

On television this year alone she not only voiced the character of Rita LaFleur on an episode of THE SIMPSONS, but she's also appeared on ELEMENTARY and SKYLER as well as had a 5-episode arc on PRIVATE PRACTICE and had a 14-episode arc on THE GOOD WIFE.

She's FAR from being off-the-radar, quite frankly.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 10:16am

Only if you watch TV or go to the movies.

I guess she's off the radar if you only follow Broadway.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:04am

She is also working on writing a musical of her own.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:08am

Now that's exciting!

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 12:13pm

Omg Kaya from FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY!

Love that gurl!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 12:45pm

People on this board have mentioned that she often turns down offers to do Broadway/Off-Broadway shows that she's been attached to. I want her to do a musical again so badly. Wasn't she attached to the recent revival of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER at one point or am I making that up? (Clearly she dodged a bullet there).
She's someone who should be a much bigger name in film/TV, but I'm glad she gets work so often.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 12/16/12 at 12:53pm

ray, she was attached to CLEAR DAY workshop at Vassar/Powerhouse.

[MenzelManiac]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 2:15pm

I love her so very much.

Had a chance to meet her at the GLAAD Awards several years back, and she could not have been sweeter. Hopefully she's working on some great stuff!

[finebydesign]

Posted: 12/17/12 at 2:30pm

She was delightful on "No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" a few years back. Shame that show never caught fire.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:15am

Let's face it, once you're a person of color and you get a toehold in Hollywood, you gotta ride that ride for every penny it's worth. Broadway may be a little dimmer for it, but she's got a great thing going for her out there.

(And she's managed to do it without doing a Tyler Perry movie.)

[Phillytheatreguy10]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:13am

Would love to hear her in the upcoming Ragtime concert as Sarah! She is a stellar talent, very underrated!

[newintown]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 10:18am

I heard she became a rabbi. Or maybe it was a rabbit.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 11:06am

everythingtaboo, Rose was (really, really wonderful) in Tyler Perry's adaptation of FOR COLORED GIRLS.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 11:06 AM

[mridley2]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 1:52pm

I thoroughly enjoyed her performance on Ladies Detective Agency. Sadly that show was pretty bland and wasn't a success at all for HBO. Too bad.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:00pm

somethingwicked, I like to pretend that stellar performance was in another movie by a better hyphenate.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:10pm

I heard she was eaten by rats.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 4:46pm

Loved her in The Good Wife

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 5:23pm

Yes, I'm embarrassed to admit I watch PRIVATE PRACTICE, but she was quite good playing a with with bi-polar disorder during her 5 episodes.

And for the record, when I met her briefly last year, she stopped to give me an autograph for my granddaughter even as her assistant was telling her she was late for an audition.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 05:23 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 6:38pm

Okay, so she's working a lot. But what the hell happened to her?!?!

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 7:41pm

I'm actually quite shocked that Rose hasn't done a pilot for a formal series over the last few years, with the exception of THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. She's done so much episodic work on so many high profile shows that you'd think a network would have snatched her up for a new series by now. I wait to see that she's finally doing something every pilot season, and yet she never does.

I don't know if she's hesitant to be locked into a series on a regular basis or if the right project just has yet to come along, but if anyone deserves something built around their talents on a major platform, it's her.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 8:11pm

I wait to see that she's finally doing something every pilot season, and yet she never does.

You ARE aware that tons of pilots are filmed each season but only a few even get green lit for a 6-episode consideration and even less get actually picked-up to air on television. Countless Broadway actors have posted online about them getting jobs for a TV series which only get as far as getting a pilot filmed and it dies there.

I'm sure Anike Noni Rose has filmed several pilots that found this D.O.A. fate, unfortunately.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:28pm

I know exactly what pilot season is and exactly how it works, and no, Anika has not ever done a pilot (as I said) outside of THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY.