Erica Tazel Biography

Fast Facts

• Is a supporter of the charitable organization Sparrow Rainbow Village, an AIDS hospice and orphanage in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Won a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Lead Female and was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda․"
• Volunteers with Get On The Bus, an organization that reunites children with their incarcerated parents for Mother's Day and Father's Day
• Graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Theater and earned her Master's from New York University's Graduate Acting Program
• Made her screen acting debut in the TV series "Sex and the City" in 2001
• Spent four years doing theater work in New York City before moving to Los Angeles
• Quote: "When I started, my feeling about [acting] was I wanted to be good in all of the mediums․ Obviously my training is in theater and I can do that with my eyes closed, but․․․I wanted to try everything․"
• Best known for her role as Deputy U․S․ Marshal Rachel Brooks in "Justified" and as Reader in "House of D․"
• Her stage credits include "A Winter's Tale," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "Cymbeline․"
• Originally wanted to become a doctor and began her time at Spelman College as a biology pre-med major