What's your favorite character played by Lorraine Toussaint? What's your favorite show? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Can we pick a favorite show when it comes to the many that actress Lorraine Toussaint has starred in or supported? Was it her role as the scheming seductress Vee on "Orange Is The New Black?" Her appearance in “Selma,” the Civil Rights biopic which won an Academy Award? How she portrays the cool and stable homebody Viola “Vi” Marsette, opposite fiery, gun toting Queen Latifah in “The Equalizer”? She’s a big reason we binge watch “Law and Order,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Any Day Now,” “The Fosters” and “Rosewood.” Oh, and “Scandal!"
On the big screen, we loved her in “Middle Of Nowhere” and “Selma,” both directed by Ava Duvernay. She also sizzled in “The Night Before,”“Sophie And The Rising Sun” and “COCO.”
The Trinidad born and Brooklyn raised actress started her career on stage, after graduating from Julliard.
Sisters Senior Editor Karen Chambers chats with Toussaint in a streaming interview on Sisters’ Facebook on Thursday, May 9th at 7pm ET. Here’s a preview of the thoughts she shared in this real and intimate conversation about resilience, character, motherhood, love and loss:
"Sometimes the greatest adversities really forge the greatest gifts."
"I often say about myself that I have more pride than sense."
"At 44, I became a mother and fell in love with my child because I'd been mothered by a mother who was in love with me."
"I do my very best to be a fully integrated human and what that means to me is that my outside reflects my inside and my inside reflects my outside."
"Life is just riddled with loss and love; the loss equals the love."
Join Sisters for this scintillating sit-down! We hope to get social with you the evening of May 9 on Sisters From AARP’s Facebook.
What's your favorite character played by Lorraine Toussaint? What's your favorite show? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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