Tracie Thoms

Tracie Nicole Thoms (born August 19, 1975) is an American television, film, and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in Rent, Cold Case, The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, and the short-lived Fox television series Wonderfalls.

Thoms was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Mariana and Donald H. Thoms. She has a younger brother, Austin. She started studying acting when she was ten and later on attended the Baltimore School for the Arts.

She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University in 1997. She then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997–2001), which also included actors Lee Pace and Anthony Mackie.

Thoms is known for her role of Mahandra McGinty in the television show Wonderfalls. She also played the part of Sasha in the US version of the T.V. series As If, which was cancelled after three episodes. Most recently she has been added to the cast of the CBS crime drama Cold Case, as the homicide detective, Kat Miller. Thoms has also made guest appearances on Law & Order and The Shield.

Thoms, Tracie Filmography

Play in Full Screen Liberty City: The American Dream

2014, role: producer
Play in Full Screen Annie

2014, role: actress
Play in Full Screen Liberty City: The American Dream

2014, role: actress , character name: Ki Hassan
Play in Full Screen McCanick

2013, role: actress , character name: Sister Alice
Play in Full Screen Raze

2013, role: actress , character name: Teresa
Play in Full Screen A Different Tree

2013, role: actress , character name: Jada
Play in Full Screen Gothica

2013, role: actress , character name: Mina
Play in Full Screen Looper

2012, role: actress , character name: Beatrix
Play in Full Screen Meeting Evil

2012, role: actress , character name: Latisha Rogers
Play in Full Screen Safe House

2012, role: actress , character name: CIA Analyst
Play in Full Screen Wonder Woman

2011, role: actress , character name: Etta Candy
Play in Full Screen An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Chaka Khan

2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen I Will Follow

2011, role: actress , character name: Tiffany
Play in Full Screen One Night Stand

2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Lionel Richie

2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Good Hair

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Rent: The Final Days on Broadway

2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Peter and Vandy

2009, role: actress , character name: Marissa
Play in Full Screen Godfrey Live

2008, role: actress , character name: Herself - Guest
Play in Full Screen Razor

2008, role: actress , character name: Valetta
Play in Full Screen Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

2008, role: actress , character name: Joanne Jefferson
Play in Full Screen Death Proof

2007, role: actress , character name: Kim
Play in Full Screen Jimmie

2007, role: actress , character name: Jimmie
Play in Full Screen 21st Annual Soul Train Music Awards

2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen Grindhouse

2007, role: actress , character name: Kim
Play in Full Screen Descent

2007, role: actress , character name: Denise
Play in Full Screen The Warrior Class

2007, role: actress , character name: Thelma Rosbach
Play in Full Screen Sex and Breakfast

2007, role: actress , character name: Sarah
Play in Full Screen No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
Play in Full Screen The Devil Wears Prada

2006, role: actress , character name: Lily
Play in Full Screen Everyone's Depressed

2005, role: actress , character name: Crystal
Play in Full Screen Rent

2005, role: actress , character name: Joanne Jefferson
Play in Full Screen Brother to Brother

2004, role: actress , character name: Mother
Play in Full Screen Porn 'n Chicken

2002, role: actress , character name: Andrea
Play in Full Screen America's Most Terrible Things

2002, role: actress , character name: Terri

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File - Parts of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are displayed in a hangar at Gilze-Rijen airbase, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

MH17 victim families sue Putin, Russia in European rights court

Edit Dawn 21 May 2016

SYDNEY. Families of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, are suing President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Aus$10 million each in the European Court of Human Rights, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday ... DAWN_VIDEO - /1029551/DAWN-RM-1x1 ... ....

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EgyptAir Flight 181 (aircraft pictured) is hijacked shortly after takeoff and forced to land at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus.

EgyptAir flight: 'Smoke detected' inside cabin before crash

Edit The Times of India 21 May 2016

PARIS. France's aviation safety agency said Saturday that the EgyptAir A320 that crashed into the eastern Mediterranean with 66 people on board had transmitted automatic messages indicating smoke in the cabin. "There were ACARS messages emitted by the plane indicating that there was smoke in the cabin shortly before data transmission broke off," a spokesman of France's Bureau of Investigations and Analysis told AFP ... ....

photo: AP / A.M. Ahad

Bangladeshi people walk through a waterlogged street after heavy rainfall in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cyclone Roanu kills 23 in Bangladesh

Edit The National 21 May 2016

Chittagong // Cyclone Roanu killed 23 people in Bangladesh on Saturday and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes amid strong winds and heavy downpours. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after noon, packing winds of up to 88 kilometres per hour ... "Thousands of villagers were forced to flee their homes after the storm surge flooded their villages," he said....

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Migrating cranes fly in front of the sun during sunset near Straussfurt, central Germany, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014.

The World's Largest Solar Plant Just Torched Itself

Edit Gizmodo 20 May 2016

Putting 347,000 mirrors in the desert faced towards the sun clearly has its disadvantages ... ....

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We Support Whistleblowers - Free Bradley Manning parade

Chelsea Manning appeals her 35 year prison sentence

Edit The Independent 21 May 2016

Chelsea Manning, the former US Army private imprisoned for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has filed an appeal for her 35-year prison sentence three years after her conviction. Manning, 28, was convicted on six counts of espionage in 2013 for leaking roughly 700,000 documents to the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks ... This week her attorneys requested that the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals reduce her sentence to 10 years....

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Video: Lifetime to air 'The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story,' about Kevin Durant's mom, tonight

Edit The Oklahoman 07 May 2016

In celebration of Mother's Day, Lifetime is airing its biopic of Wanda Pratt, mother of Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant, at 7 tonight. "The Real MVP ... Cassandra Freeman ("Inside Man," "Single Ladies") stars as Wanda; Tracie Thoms ("Cold Case," "Rent") as her best friend and confidante; and Pauletta Washington ("Wilma") portrays her mother Barbara ... The movie was filmed primarily in Vancouver ... “It’s amazing and exceptional....

TV review: ‘Real MVP’ is sweet tribute to NBA star’s mom

Edit The Oklahoman 06 May 2016

TV MOVIE. “The Real MVP. The Wanda Durant Story”. WHEN, WHERE. Saturday at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. WHAT IT’S ABOUT. Thank God for Mother’s Day ... Turns out there’s stirring drama there ... Wanda (Cassandra Freeman, VH1’s “Single Ladies”) learned from her own God-fearing mom (Pauletta Washington, wife of Denzel) to set goals and keep “looking ahead,” with support from a steadfast best friend (Tracie Thoms, CBS’ “Cold Case”) ... MY SAY ... BOTTOM LINE ... GRADE. A-....

Lifetime Movie Tells Wanda Durant’s True Story Based On Pro Ball Player Kevin Durant

Edit Inquisitr 05 May 2016

The Real MVP. The Wanda Durant Story is a stirring new inspirational movie that will debut on the Lifetime Channel this weekend ... to raise successful black boys who will go on to be respectable and successful black men ... The Real MVP ... It stars Daniel Bellomy as Kevin Durant, Cassandra Freeman as Wanda Durant, Romuald Hivert as Joel, Nathan Mitchell as Reggie, Tracie Thoms as Demetria, and Pauletta Washington as Barbara. The Real MVP....

7 things you missed from the final A Night at Sardi's benefit

Edit The Los Angeles Times 12 Mar 2016

... McGuire"), Karen David and Timothy Omundson ("Galavant"), Janel Parrish ("Pretty Little Liars"), Amy Pietz ("Caroline in the City"), Tracie Thoms ("Love" and "Send Me"), Jack McGee and Tyler Ritter ("The McCarthys"), Steven Weber ("Chasing Life"), Barrett Foa ("NCIS....

JORDAN YOUNG, 37, from Syosset

Edit Newsday 08 Mar 2016

(Credit. Jordan Young). THE GIG He is a television writer-producer. HIS STORY Young, who graduated from Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, worked as an animator on "The Simpsons" for three years ... "I only really do adult comedy," he said ... (Credit. Photographer ... "Send Me," about a woman (Tracie Thoms) who sends African-Americans back to the days of slavery, premiered last week on BET.com, and co-stars Harper as her disapproving husband ... 3 ... 16 ... ....

Baltimore native Tracie Thoms stars in BET's time-traveling Web series 'Send Me'

Edit Baltimore Sun 24 Feb 2016

Journeying back to the days of slavery is generally not high on the list of time-traveling destinations, but that is exactly where characters of the new BET Web series “Send Me,” starring Baltimore native and actress Tracie Thoms, plan to go. Best known for her roles in films ”Rent” and “Death ... ....

Judd Apatow’s Netflix Series Cleverly Explores 21st-Century Courtship

Edit The Wrap 18 Feb 2016

But it’s in the small details where “Love” gets its hooks into you ... Rust plays Gus, a 31-year-old child tutor who works on the set of a terrible-looking Freeform-style supernatural series involving witches ... Also Read ... (And the supporting cast, especially Claudia O’Doherty as Mickey’s bubbly roommate and Tracie Thoms as the no-nonsense showrunner on the program where Gus works, can be awfully delightful.)....

Lifetime Sets Movie About Kevin Durant’s Mom, Queen Latifah Produces

Edit Huffington Post 04 Feb 2016

Cassandra Freeman (Inside Man, Single Ladies), Tracie Thoms (Cold Case, Rent), Pauletta Washington (Wilma), Daniel Bellomy, Nic Few (Major Crimes, The Exes), and Demarius Mack (Real Husbands Of Hollywood) have been cast in Lifetime original movie with the working title of The Real MVP. The Wanda Pratt Story, based on the life of NBA star Kevin Durant’s mom ... ....

Casting Net: Kevin James' espionage comedy on Netflix adds Andy Garcia, Rob Riggle, more

Edit Entertainment Weekly 04 Feb 2016

Zulay Henao (The Single Moms Club) was officially announced, but had already joined the film ... Shooting wraps Feb. 12 in the Dominican Republic. It debuts on Netflix later this year ... The Wanda Pratt Story and stars Cassandra Freeman as Pratt (Inside Man), Tracie Thoms (Cold Case), Pauletta Washington (Wilma), Daniel Bellomy, Nic Few (Major Crimes), and Demarius Mack (Real Husbands Of Hollywood) ... [Deadline] Mr ... Steven C ... [Variety] ....

Report: Lifetime to air film about Durant's mom called 'The Real MVP'

Edit CBS Sports 03 Feb 2016

The Wanda Pratt Story ." ... Cassandra Freeman (Inside Man, Single Ladies), Tracie Thoms (Cold Case, Rent), Pauletta Washington (Wilma), Daniel Bellomy and Nic Few (Major Crimes, The Exes) have been cast inLifetime original movie with the working title of The Real MVP ... ....

SXSW 2016: The most intriguing films on the line-up from Uber driver drama to competitive ...

Edit The Independent 03 Feb 2016

Sundance made for a few fair headlines this year, with slave rebellion drama Birth of a Nation, farting desert island corpse movie Swiss Army Man and two films about Christine Chubbuck’s on-air suicide piquing audiences' interest. 11 March will see the 23rd South by South West Festival commence in Austin, Texas, and it has a fair few interesting titles of its own ... Films ... Jones, Tracie Thoms, Aasha Davis, Sujata Day (World Premiere) ... ....

SXSW Film Festival announces 2016 features lineup

Edit The Examiner 03 Feb 2016

Get your schedules ready Austinites because with springtime weather comes spring film news!. The South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival organizers announced the majority of their feature film lineup for the 2016 festival on Tuesday with a full dose of stars and newcomers abound ... Feb 9 ... Come back next week for more titles! ... Narrative Feature Competition. "The Arbalest" ... Cast ... Jones, Tracie Thoms, Aasha Davis, Sujata Day (World Premiere) ... Mr....

SXSW 2016 film line-up includes Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Demolition,’ Don Cheadle’s ‘Miles Ahead’

Edit Celebrity Café 02 Feb 2016

The full line-up for the South By Southwest 2016 Film Festival was announced Tuesday afternoon. The list includes 139 films, including 52 from first-time filmmakers. SXSW booked 89 World Premieres, 13 North American premieres and eight films that have never been shown in the U.S. before ... “We’ve been told we program the way real people watch movies ... The Arbalest ... Adam Pinney ... Jones, Tracie Thoms, Aasha Davis, Sujata Day (World Premiere) ... Mr ... ....