LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received 3 more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, and The Outsiders.
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