Danielle Brooks - 'The Color Purple'

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Danielle Brooks - 'The Color Purple'

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Jan 3, 2024

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The Grammy winner and Tony and Emmy nominee reflects on her path from Greenville, South Carolina to Juilliard to Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black' and Broadway, overcoming impostor syndrome and her fateful Zoom with Oprah.
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Jan 3, 2024

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