I only know Anika Noni Rose from her role as Mma Makutsi in the (alas single season) adaptation of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but she inhabited that character so well - and goodness, her IMDB photos show such a wide range - that I can't imagine she wouldn't be amazing.
...and now I'm helplessly earwormed with "Carmen's Boogie" and I had to go listen to it on YouTube. (I think the Andrews Sisters version is the original, but my mother had the Crew Cuts recording and so that's the one embedded in my lizard brain from childhood listening.)
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I seem to have seen her only in the 2006 film of Dreamgirls, where she was the Dreamgirl who wasn't Jennifer Hudson or Beyoncé. When I thought I hadn't seen her at all, though, Hilton Als still made a superlative case that I should. Do you recommend the season that exists of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?
...and now I'm helplessly earwormed with "Carmen's Boogie" and I had to go listen to it on YouTube. (I think the Andrews Sisters version is the original, but my mother had the Crew Cuts recording and so that's the one embedded in my lizard brain from childhood listening.)
Okay, links?