Erica Tazel

Birth Name:

Erica N. Tazel

Birth Place:

Dallas, Texas, United States

Profession

Actress

Is a supporter of the charitable organization Sparrow Rainbow Village, an AIDS hospice and orphanage in Johannesburg, South Africa
Volunteers with Get On The Bus, an organization that reunites children with their incarcerated parents for Mother's Day and Father's Day
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․"
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

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