Biography

Adrienne Warren is perhaps most well known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Tina Turner in Broadway’s “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”.  Warren originated the role in numerous workshops of the show, working together with Tina Turner herself to embody the titular role. Warren transferred the role to Broadway following the 2018 West End production, for which she earned 2019 Olivier, Evening Standard, and Joe Allen Award nominations.

Warren previously earned Tony and Chita Rivera Award nominations for Shuffle Along opposite Audra McDonald. She made her Broadway debut in 2012's Bring It On: The Musical. Last season, Warren starred opposite Nick Jonas in Broadway's The Last Five Years. Most recently, she starred in the Broadway revival of Proof. Additional stage credits include The Wild Party (Encores! City Center; Drama League nomination), The Wiz (Encores! City Center), and Dreamgirls (The Apollo; NAACP Theatre Award nomination).

Warren made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Pops in 2017 and continues to perform around the world.

She starred as 'Benny' in Hulu's Black Cake, based on the best-selling book and as Mamie Till-Mobley, in Women of the Movement, a limited series for ABC. Other television credits include The Diplomat, Paws & Fury: The Legend of Hank, Helpsters, Quantico, Black Box, Blue Bloods, and Orange is the New Black. Films include: Rustin, with Coleman Domingo, and The Woman King, with Viola Davis. Warren's voice can also be heard as the iconic spokesperson for Maybelline Cosmetics.

Warren is a co-founder of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC), which unites artists, experts, students, and community leaders to use storytelling and artistry to combat systemic racism. BAC received a special Tony Award in 2021.

She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia.