Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018-19).
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In their own words 4
My life's work has been to go around America with a tape recorder trying to become America word for word. And I've met a lot of people who I disagree with.
On connecting with people with opposing viewpoints in “Anna Deavere Smith Brings One-Woman Play 'Notes From The Field' To HBO” in NPR (2018
I do believe that character is a process, that truth is a process, and I am not interested in winning and losing…
On character building in “Wearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith” in the Buddhist Review (Fall 1994)
…White racism is about people who don’t feel so bad about fixed things. But white racism is a fixed thing, and it is perpetuated because of fixedness.
On racism and the concept of fixedness in “Wearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith” in the Buddhist Review (Fall 1994)
Filmography 22
Ghosted
Philadelphia
The Kingdom
The Manchurian Candidate
Rachel Getting Married
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The American President
Dave
Rent
Cry_Wolf
The Human Stain
Flora & Ulysses
Here Today
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Life Support
Soup for One
Notes from the Field
Touched
Twilight: Los Angeles
Fires in the Mirror
Hawaii's Last Queen
Unfinished Business44 credits on file
Television 17
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Real Time with Bill Maher
The West Wing
BoJack Horseman
The Practice
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
American Experience
Madam Secretary
black-ish
Nurse Jackie
Extrapolations
Finding Your Roots
Inventing Anna
For the People
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Presidio Med
MasterclassAwards 15
Connected to Anna 6
About this person
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000-06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009-15), and U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018-19).
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