Now in its 10th year, Alfre Woodard’s Sistahs’ Soiree takes place during the tail end of award season right before the Oscars. This year, the event, hosted by CCH Pounder and Lorraine Toussaint, honored The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg and Oscar-nominated If Beale Street Could Talk actress Regina King. The…

“What’s an intimacy coach?” The Village’s Lorraine Toussaint asked TV critics on Day 1 of Winter TCA 2019. NBC had pointedly kicked off Winter TCA 2019 with a “Women of Drama” panel, presumably so Toussaint, Jennifer Carpenter of The Enemy Within, Good GIrls‘ Retta, and This is Us’s Susan Kelechi Watson could weigh in…

EXCLUSIVE: Lorraine Toussaint, who currently stars in AMC’s Into the Badlands, has been cast as the feminist, civil rights advocate and activist Flo Kennedy in the upcoming biopic on iconic women’s rights leader Gloria Steinem which is being directed by Julie Taymor. The Glorias stars Julianne Moore and Alicia…

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Bad alum Dean Norris, Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal, The Shawshank Redemption), and Lorraine Toussaint (Into The Badlands, Selma, Orange Is The New Black) have signed on for Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark from CBS Films and eOne. The André Øvredal-directed adaptation based on Alvin Schwartz’s…

Lorraine Toussaint (Rosewood) has been tapped for a lead role and The Sopranos alum Dominic Chianese is set to co-star in NBC's drama pilot The Village. Written/executive produced by Mike Daniels and directed by Minkie Spiro, The Village is a sprawling ensemble drama. Despite differences in age, race, culture and…

Former Rosewood co-star Lorraine Toussaint is set as a new series regular in the third season of AMC’s hit martial arts drama series Into the Badlands. Toussaint will play Cressida, a self styled Prophetess and mentor to Pilgrim. She is his spiritual guide, political counsel and chief military strategist. Toussaint…

EXCLUSIVE: David Strathairn, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney and Christopher Denham have signed on to drama thriller Fast Color opposite Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The pic is directed by Juila Hart and produced by La La Land Oscar nominee Jordan Horowitz under his Original Headquarters banner and LD Entertainment…

On the surface, Fox’s Rosewood looks like a he said-she said procedural between Morris Chestnut as Miami’s top pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., and Jaina Lee Ortiz as the detective he assists. But what was apparent coming away from the TCA panel, was that award-winning actress Lorraine Toussaint, notably last…