Renee Elise Goldsberry
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Renee Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American soap opera actress.
Born in San Jose, California and raised in both Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelors degree in theater, and went on to attend graduate school at the University of Southern California, where she received her masters degree in vocal jazz performance. In 2003, she married New York attorney Alexis Johnson.
Goldsberry has made past appearances on the FOX series, Ally McBeal in which she played one of the back-up singers who frequently accompanied Vonda Shepard's performances, and in the Broadway production of The Lion King. She currently appears on Broadway in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. Since 2003 Goldsberry has portrayed no-nonsense attorney Evangeline Williamson on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. She was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2004 for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series and won a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2005 for Favorite Triangle with co-stars Michael Easton and Melissa Archer.
In 2006, Goldsberry received a Daytime Emmy nomination for her role as Evangeline Willamson in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress.
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