Tonya Pinkins Biography
Tonya Pinkins is an actor and filmmaker from the United States. Her award-winning debut feature film, RED PILL, was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival, won Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Feature at The Mykonos International Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Luléa Film Festival, and is nominated for numerous awards around the world. On her podcast “You Can’t Say That!” at BPN.fm/ycst, you can hear her web-series The RED PILLING of AMERICA.
How old is Tonya Pinkins? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 30 May 2023. She was born in 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Tonya Pinkins Family – Education
Her father was a cop and an insurance salesman, while her mother was a postal worker. She has two brothers named Eric and Thomas Swoope, as well as a sister named Tamera Swoope. Pinkins later returned to college, graduating in 1996 with an undergraduate degree in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago, followed by a year at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
Tonya Pinkins Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
Tonya Pinkins Fear the Walking Dead
She appeared as Martha, mysterious antagonistic woman who kills every survivor that tries to help someone else, believing it makes them weak in the fourth season of the American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series Fear the Walking Dead. Before the outbreak, little is known about Martha beyond that she was an English teacher, married, and resided in or near Austin, Texas. Martha and her husband, Hank, are killed in an automobile accident and are impaled by a guardrail. Martha attempts but fails to wave down passing cars. She kills a walker, who reanimates and dies later.
The next day, a truck driver named Stevie inadvertently abandons a supply box on the highway. Martha stabs Stevie to death with a stick and ambushes another trucker with a zombie Stevie. She kills numerous truckers by attacking them with other truckers who have been transformed. Martha ambushes a truck driver, Purvis, one day and demands the identification of Polar Bear, the person in charge of the box distribution. When Purvis refuses, she murders him and attempts to call Polar Bear over the truck’s CB radio. Morgan Jones later contacts her and informs her that he accidently got a trip to Mississippi in the trailer.
Tonya Pinkins University Hospital
She appeared as Nurse Jenkins in the American medical drama series University Hospital. The story revolves around four student nurses working at a university hospital.Samantha is raped by a gorgeous doctor. Megan purchases a used car.The hospital’s drugs have been stolen. Megan tries to assist a patient who has a dying wish. Jamie’s pal has a dark past as a convicted murderer. Megan is asked to pose naked by a famous artist. Megan saw an armed robbery. Tracy’s biological mother is displeased that she has discovered her. Jamie has a date with a plastic surgeon.
Jamie’s ex-boyfriend wants to rekindle their relationship. Despite her parents’ wishes, Megan attempts to keep a child in the hospital. Tracy has a blind date with a mortician. Megan’s intentions with Dr. Daniels continue to fall through. When a terrible infection is discovered, an entire floor of the hospital is quarantined. Megan assists a girl in a psychiatric facility in proving that her father is a killer. Tracy marries a composer in order to maintain his citizenship. Tracy and Jamie assist a feuding couple. When Nurse Jenkins’ husband is seriously injured in a car accident, she must determine whether she wants to assist the person responsible. Tracy’s career is jeopardized when a doctor denies responsibility for a patient receiving incorrect medication.
Tonya Pinkins Movies
♦ 2021 – Better Than My Last
♦ 2020 – The Surrogate
♦ 2020 – Black Lady Goddess
♦ 2020 – Red Pill
♦ 2019 – The Artist’s Wife
♦ 2018 – Write When You Get Work
♦ 2018 – Paris Blues in Harlem
♦ 2018 – Mr. Talented
♦ 2017 – Aardvark
♦ 2017 – The Book of Henry
♦ 2017 – My Days of Mercy
♦ 2017 – An Act of Terror
♦ 2016 – Collective: Unconscious
♦ 2016 – Fearless Love
♦ 2015 – Ori Inu: In Search of Self
♦ 2015 – For Justice
♦ 2013 – Newlyweeds
♦ 2013 – Fading Gigolo
Tonya Pinkins TV Shows
♦ 2021 – Run the World
♦ 2021 – Women of the Movement
♦ 2020 – Katy Keene
♦ 2020 – God Friended Me
♦ 2019 – NCIS: New Orleans
♦ 2019 – Bull – Judge Maynard
♦ 2019 – Wu-Tang: An American Saga
♦ 2019 – The Two Princes
♦ 2018 – Random Acts of Flyness
♦ 2018 – Elementary
♦ 2018 – Fear the Walking Dead
♦ 2018 – Adventures in New America
♦ 2017 – Scandal
♦ 2017 – The Strain
♦ 2016–19 – Madam Secretary
♦ 2016 – 11.22.63
♦ 2015–16 – Gotham
♦ 2015 – Nurse Jackie