Biography
Tracie Thoms is an American actress and singer. She was born on 19 August 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a BFA from Howard University and a graduate diploma from the Juilliard School.
Thoms is known for her role as Joanne Jefferson in the 2005 film Rent and its Broadway productions, as Lily in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and its 2026 sequel, and as Kim in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (2007). She has appeared in films including Looper (2012) and Safe House (2012), and on television in Cold Case, Wonderfalls, Suits, Grey's Anatomy and, since 2018, as Karen Wilson in 9-1-1. On stage she played Dr Charlotte in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos.
