Tonya Pinkins

Personal Info

Birthday

May 30, 1962

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tonya Pinkins

Biography

Tonya Pinkins was born in Chicago, Illinois. She has four children.

Her father was a police officer and insurance salesman and her mother is a former postal worker. She has two brothers, Eric Swoope and Thomas Swoope and a sister Tamera Swoope from whom she is estranged. She was interested in the arts from a young age.

Known For

Criminal Minds

Law & Order

Elementary

The Strain

Gotham

Cold Case

The Cosby Show

Fear the Walking Dead

Filmography

2025
The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
as Horror Film Expert
2024
The Life of Peter Gottlieb
as Dean Fendleman
2021
The Surrogate
as Karen Weatherston-Harris
Red Pill
as Cassandra
2020
The School for Wives
as Arnolphe
The Artist's Wife
as Liza Caldwell
2018
Mr. Talented
as Valerie Brown
Aardvark
as Abigail
My Days of Mercy
as Agatha
2017
The Book of Henry
as Principal Wilder
An Act of Terror
as Mary Church Terrell
2016
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
as Self
Collective: Unconscious
as Ripa the Reaper
Everybody Dies!
as Ripa the Reaper
2015
Rasheeda Speaking
as Jaclyn
2013
Home
as Esmin
Newlyweeds
as Patrice
2008
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Robinson
2007
Enchanted
as Phoebe Banks
2005
Romance & Cigarettes
as Female Medic
1994
Against Their Will
as Sondra
Above the Rim
as Mailika
1992
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
as Herself
1989
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
as Leslie