Nikki M. James

Known for ActingBorn 1981-06-03 (age 45)Summit, New Jersey, USA

Nikki Michelle James (born June 3, 1981) is an American actress, director, and singer. James has performed in the popular stage musicals The Book of Mormon, Les Misérables, and Suffs, earning a Tony Award for The Book of Mormon. James was born to immigrant parents, a Vincentian father and a Haitian mother who settled in New Jersey in pursuit of the American dream. James grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, where she would graduate from Livingston High School. As a child, she sang and acted in church and in school performances. She was nominated for a Rising Star Award at Paper Mill Playhouse for her performance as Dolly Levi in high school. She later attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. James made her Broadway debut in the ill-fated The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and starred as Ottilie in the New York City Centre Encores! production of House of Flowers. She played Adela in the Off-Broadway run of Michael John LaChiusa's musical adaptation of Bernarda Alba and appeared in the Broadway cast of All Shook Up. James played Dorothy in the revival of The Wiz at La Jolla Playhouse and also starred in Romeo and Juliet and Caesar and Cleopatra at the Stratford Festival with Christopher Plummer. For her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, she won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. During that run, she took a leave in June 2012 to film a screen version of Lucky Stiff. From 2014 to January 2015, she played Éponine in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. In July 2017, James starred in the New York City Centre Encores! staged concert of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. In 2024 she began starring as journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells in the musical Suffs. James was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nikki M. James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Suffs

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Severance

Daredevil: Born Again

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Third Watch

The Blacklist

The Good Fight

The Good Wife

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Modern Love

30 Rock

BrainDead

Proven Innocent

Daredevil: Born Again Official Podcast

Spoiler Alert

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

All Is Bright

Pizza

Faraway Eyes

Lucky Stiff

MISCAST26

Andy Mientus sings Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon

Checklist

Broadway Whodunit

Caesar and Cleopatra

Tony Awards