Actor

Roslyn
Ruff

Broadway: Fences (standby for Viola Davis), Off-Broadway: Love, Loss and What I Wore, Macbeth (TFNA), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (NY & world premieres) and Things of Dry Hours (Drama League Nomination) at NYTW, Seven Guitars (Obie Award for Performance) at The Signature, The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth at the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Pudd’nhead Wilson and Taming of the Shrew with The Acting Co. National Tour. Regional includes: Jitney (Two River Theatre Co.), American premiere of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home (Long Wharf/Berkeley Rep), August Wilson’s 20th Century Cycle (Kennedy Center), Gem of the Ocean (McCarter/ACT), Gee’s Bend at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, King Lear (Yale Rep) In the Blood (Barrymore Award-Outstanding Lead Actress) at the People’s Light & Theatre Co. Also, Indiana Rep, Geva Theatre, Old Globe and Alliance Theatre. International: Piano Lesson BBC Radio, Lady Macbeth at the 2004 Bonn Biennale and Shakespeare Festival of Neuss; Ismene in The Oedipus Plays at the 2003 Athens Festival. Films include: Detachment, The Help, Salt, Life During Wartime and Rachel Getting Married. TV: Upcoming Showtime pilot Masters of Sex (guest star), A Gifted Man, The Big C, The Good Wife, The Sopranos. Training: MFA from the IATT at Harvard University.