Amber Riley

Here comes another personality, who had kept a great contribution to make the FOX presents American TV serial ‘Glee’ famous throughout the whole world. In audience’s heart, she is well-known as Mercedes Jones. For her expert acting in this serial, she won the ‘Screen Actors Guild Award,’ and received nominations for NAACP Image Awards and three Teen Choice Awards. Her dancing and singing really stirred the world.

She is none but THE Amber Riley, an American actress, singer, and author. Amber Riley was born in Los Angeles, California. She has two sisters. They are Toyota and Ashley. When she was 17 years old, she gave an audition for ‘American Idol,’ but the producers refused to select her. Later, she attended La Mirada High School in La Mirada, California and graduated from there in 2004. In the end of 2008, she started her career. She appeared as ‘Mercedes Jones’ in all the six seasons of ‘Glee.’ She acted in total 93 episodes for ‘Glee.’ In this Comedy-drama TV series, she performed many solos. Some of those are “ Respect Click to look into! >> Read More... ,” “Bust Your Windows,” “I Look to You,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “ Beautiful Click to look into! >> Read More... ,” “ Spotlight Click to look into! >> Read More... ,” etc.

In an episode named “The Rocky Horror Glee Show,” she sang the song named “Sweet Transvestite.” Riley was present at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, she sang the National Anthem. The year 2013 was the happiest year of her life. Because, in 2013, she became the winner of ABC’s dancing competition ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ She was the first African-American woman to achieve this fame. She, with her partner Hough created the record of highest first-week score of 27. On April 3, 2014, she danced on a song written by Steve Mac and two others on ‘The Queen Latifah Show.’ She sketched Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North in December, 2015 on NBC’s Live Performance of ‘The Wiz.’

Throughout her life, she has acted in some movies and TV serials. One of the television show is ‘Glee.’ Besides this, in 2010, she played an important role of Ayesha in ‘ The Simpsons The Simpsons is a funny, highly popular American s >> Read More... .’ The episode was “Elementary School Musical.” Another one is ‘My One Christmas Wish.’ There she was Jackie Turner. In 2016, she acted in the show ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.’ In the episode “Josh Has No Idea Where I am,” she played the role of Dream Ghost (No. II). She had performed many times on stage. In 2016, she appeared on such a programme named ‘Dream girls.’ And, there she won ‘WhatsOnStage.com’ Award for Best Actress in a musical. Currently, in 2017, she has appeared as a Judge on a show ‘Let It Shine’ organised by BBC.