Uzo Aduba Charity Work, Events and Causes

A formidable talent, Uzo Aduba is an award-winning actress whose work spans television, film and theatre. She stars as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series “Orange is the New Black.”

In film, Aduba was most recently seen in Lionsgate and Hasbro’s “My Little Pony,” “American Pastoral” and “Tallulah,” which released on Netflix in July 2016 after premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Prior to starring on television, Aduba’s Broadway debut in “Coram Boy” in 2007 was followed by the hit musical revival of “Godspell” in 2011. Her studies as a classical music major at the Boston University School of Fine Art and work in theatre was quickly followed with critically acclaimed performances at The Huntington Theatre in Boston and A.R.T. There, under the direction of Dianne Paulus, she won the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress in a Play. Aduba recently made her West End Theatre debut in The Jamie Lloyd Company’s contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet’s “The Maids.” Directed by Lloyd, the play also starred Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton.