Joaquina Kalukango
Biography
Joaquina Kalukango is an American actor and singer best known for playing Nelly O'Brien in the Broadway musical Paradise Square, for which she won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play in 2020 for portraying Kaneisha in Slave Play. In addition to her theatre work, Kalukango has appeared in One Night in Miami..., When They See Us and...Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2025
Robin Roberts Presents: I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story
As: Gloria Gaynor
- 2023
Lawmen: Bass Reeves
As: Esme
- 2021
Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
As: Mildred Falls
- 2020
One Night in Miami...
As: Betty X
- 2020
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
As: Nonkosi
- 2020
Lovecraft Country
As: Hanna
- 2019
Chained for Life
As: Michelle
- 2019
When They See Us
As: Adelle