Condola Rashad

CondolaPhyleawas born in New York City, U.S., on December 11, 1986, to the singer, actress, and director Phylicia Rashad The Cosby Show, an NBC sitcom, which was telecast >> Read More... and sportscaster, former professional football player Ahmad Rashad. She has seven older half-siblings. Rashad is Debbie Allen’s niece. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2008. She got engaged to Billions' co-star Sebastian VallentinStenhøj in 2017. She is best known for her stage roles. She made her debut with Stick Fly, a Broadway play. Rashad first broke out with a critically-acclaimed performance in Lynn Nottage's off-Broadway play Ruined, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2009).

She also won the Theatre World Award for the Best Debut Performance and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She has been nominated four times for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Stick Fly, The Trip The Trip aired on Bindass is a story of four girlf >> Read More... to Bountiful, A Doll's House, Part 2, and Saint Joan. Condola also played Juliet in the Broadway remake of Romeo and Juliet (2013).

She is also known for Sex and the City 2 (2010), Money Monster (2016)and Billions (2016), and the Netflix-produced biographical film Come Sunday (2018).In 2012, she appeared in a recurring role on the NBC series Smash, and previously guest-starred on The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Submissions Only. She starred as Shelby, the daughter of Queen Latifah's character, in the lifetime remake of Steel Magnolias (2012), performing alongside her mother. Rashad made it to BET's "Future 40" list in 2020, which is a list of 40 of the most inspiring and innovative vanguards who are redefining what it means to be unapologetically young, and gifted, and black.