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"I feel like we are left as a team, as a unit, and it took a journey for us to get there, but we finally do," says Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks of the first season of the HBO Max series from James Gunn. "And I think we realize who the true badasses are – and that's us, the two women you are taking to right here,"…

Fantasia Taylor will star as Celie and Danielle Brooks will play Sofia in Warner Bros’ film adaptation of the musical The Color Purple, with both reprising their respective roles on Broadway. The news was revealed Thursday during ABC’s Soul of a Nation: Screen Queens Rising special. Fantasia and Brooks join a cast…

Producer Robin Roberts was joined by star and fellow producer Danielle Brooks at Deadline's Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event for Lifetime’s panel on Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia, which has been Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie. The biopic on the late great gospel superstar…

Lifetime’s biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia stars Danielle Brooks in the story of gospel icon Mahalia Jackson and her journey to becaming one of the most revered singers in American history. She also melded her music to the civil rights movement — she stood with Martin Luther King Jr at the March on Washington…

Growing up as the daughter of a deacon and a minister, church and gospel music has had a major influence on Danielle Brooks. After her breakout role in Orange is the New Black, Brooks combined her passions for acting and singing in The Color Purple on Broadway. But Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia takes her back to her…

Growing up, Danielle Brooks, best known for Orange Is the New Black, sang every week in church and recalls seeing photos of key figures in her Sunday School classroom — icons like Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and gospel superstar Mahalia Jackson. So she believes it was fated that she eventually would get to play…

Danielle Brooks was destined to play iconic gospel artist and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. At Lifetime’s TCA presentation of Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia today, the Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award-winning actress said that the seed was planted years before the project came about. Brooks recalled how…

Following the news today that Danielle Brooks has boarded the HBO Max The Suicide Squad spinoff series Peacemaker, we also can tell you that Robert Patrick, Jennifer Holland and Chris Conrad are joining as well. Patrick will play the role of Auggie Smith; Conrad will portray The Vigilante/Adrian Chase; and Holland…

Grammy and three-time SAG ensemble winner Danielle Brooks is joining HBO Max’s Peacemaker, the spinoff series to James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie. She joins John Cena, who is playing the title character, and Steve Agee, who is reprising his John Economos character from the film. Brooks will play Leota…

Lifetime has extended its partnership with journalist Robin Roberts for four new movies and they are about to fuel the soul with Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story. The movie will star Tony Award nominee, SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color…

Things are getting existential for the Litchfield inmates on Orange is the New Black in the final season— as if they weren’t existential to begin with. Netflix released the first trailer for the seventh season of the Jenji Kohan-created series and a lot has changed for Piper, Taystee, Crazy Eyes, Dayanara, Red, Gloria…

Clemency director-writer Chinonye Chukwu and the film’s stars Alfre Woodard, Danielle Brooks, Richard Schiff, and Aldis Hodge are today’s guests for the Stella Artois and Deadline Sundance Series. They spoke to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about making of the film and more. As Chukwu’s second feature, the story…