Biography
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is an American actress and singer. Critics praised her portrayal of Blanca Evangelista, making her the first transgender woman to win an Emmy Award in 2021. She also won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her performance in Pose’s third season, earning her Outstanding Lead Actress nomination.
Age
She is 33 years old as of 7 January 2024. She was born in 1991 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. She was born in Michaela Antonia Jaé Rodriguez.
Family – Education
Rodriguez was born on January 7, 1991, in Newark, New Jersey, to an African-American mother and a father of mixed Puerto Rican and African-American ancestry. Rodriguez attended Queen of Angels Catholic School. She aspired to be an actor since she was seven years old, and she started pursuing it at the age of 11 when her mother enrolled her in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, where she became an eight-year veteran and participated in the New Jersey Youth Theater program. She graduated from Newark Arts High School and went on to attend Berklee College of Music, where she received a 2009 Star-Ledger scholarship and a 2009 Young Arts first-level scholarship.
Partner
While she had “prayed to become female” since the age of seven, Rodriguez claims she was in denial for several years until coming out to her parents as “bisexual/gay” at the age of fourteen.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Pose
He made an appearance as transgender HIV/AIDS sufferer Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista, a former member of the House of Abundance. In the American drama television series Pose, she is the mother and founder of the House of Evangelista.
“The juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York City at that time” is the focus of Pose, which is set in 1987–1998. It explores the emergence of the yuppie milieu, HIV, the world of African-American and Latino ball culture, and the downtown social and literary scene. On June 11, 2019, the second season debuted to even more positive reviews.
To more enthusiastic reviews, the third and final season debuted on May 2, 2021, and ended on June 6, 2021. Rodriguez received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series on July 13, 2021, making history as the first transgender lead nominee ever.
Transition and Reemergence
Rodriguez started to thoroughly investigate the transitioning process around this time. After the 2012 off-Broadway revival ended, Rodriguez decided to take a break and start the changeover. Rodriguez returned to acting in early 2016, starting with hormone replacement therapy and giving herself enough time to recover. After that, Rodriguez got in touch with her agent to let them know that she was done trying out for male parts. Rodriguez discovered that her representation was completely supportive of her new gender identification, despite her initial reservations.
Rodriguez had brief television appearances in roles such as Luke Cage, Nurse Jackie, and The Carrie Diaries between 2012 and 2016.The first transgender actor and character to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was her 2016 cameo in the non-speaking role of “Sister Boy” on Luke Cage.
Rodriguez posted a video of herself performing the Broadway musical Hamilton’s song “Satisfied” on Facebook after making a comeback. She was invited to try out for the Hamilton role of Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds after the video garnered great feedback. Several Broadway and LGBT news outlets reported on her transgender actor tryout for a cisgender role. In addition, Rodriguez played Ebony in an uncredited supporting part in the independent film Saturday Church. In the 2017 film, which had its world premiere in January 2018, a fugitive adolescent explored their gender identification and got entangled in the modern underground ball culture scene. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for her depiction of Ebony.
Career
In school, Rodriguez was projected in a theater creation of Lease as Heavenly messenger Dumott Schunard. She associated with entertainer Fredi Walker-Browne, who helped her property a tryout for the job in an off-Broadway creation. Rodriguez’ execution procured her the 2011 Clive Barnes Grant.
In 2017, Rodriguez was projected in the main job of Blanca Evangelista in the FX series Posture, which impacted the world forever by projecting five transsexual entertainers in driving jobs. The show is set in New York City during the 1980s and investigates the existences of strange ethnic minorities, particularly Dark trans ladies, associated with the underground assembly hall scene. Rodriguez’s presentation has been applauded by pundits.
In 2019, Rodriguez turned into the primary straightforwardly transsexual lady to win Best Entertainer – TV at the Imagen Grants. In the fall of 2019, she played Audrey, the main woman in Pasadena Playhouse’s creation of Little Shop of Detestations, turning into the principal transsexual lady of variety to assume the part in a significant creation. Her cast mates included George Salazar (from Broadway’s Be More Chill) as Seymour and Golden Riley (Joy) as Audrey II.
In November 2019, Rodriguez handled an agreement with Olay Body, turning into the primary Latina trans lady to enter an organization with the organization. On May 7, 2021, it was accounted for that Rodriguez would star close by Maya Rudolph in Apple television’s impending parody series coordinated by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.
In 2021, Rodriguez turned into the principal transsexual lady to get an Emmy Grant selection in a significant acting classification, designated for Extraordinary Lead Entertainer in a Show Series for her exhibition in the third and last time of Posture. On June 4, 2021, Rodriguez delivered her introduction single “A comment” under the record mark Access Records, filling in as the lead single for her impending presentation EP.
In September 2021, Rodriguez declared that she presently goes by Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, expressing that it was just correct and, surprisingly, more private to tell individuals who the lady within Mj is. On January 9, 2022, Rodriguez won the Brilliant Globe Grant for Best Entertainer – TV Series Show at the 79th Brilliant Globe Grants, turning into the principal transsexual entertainer to win a Brilliant Globe throughout the entire existence of the honors.
Movies
♦ 2023 – Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
♦ 2021 – Tick, Tick… Boom!
♦ 2020 – Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
♦ 2019 – Adam
♦ 2018 – Gema
♦ 2018 – The Big Take
♦ 2017 – Saturday Church
♦ 2017 – Bun in the Oven
TV Shows
♦ 2023-2024 – American Horror Story: Delicate
♦ 2022–present – Loot
♦ 2022 – A Black Lady Sketch Show
♦ 2022 – Dead End: Paranormal Park
♦ 2018–21 – Pose
♦ 2016 – [Blank] My Life
♦ 2016 – Luke Cage
♦ 2013 – The Carrie Diaries
♦ 2012 – Nurse Jackie