Tiffany Haddish

Tiffany Haddish
Haddish in 2013
Birth nameTiffany Cornilia Haddish
Born (1979-12-03) December 3, 1979 (age 44)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Medium
  • Stand-up
  • film
  • television
  • books
Nationality
  • American
Years active2000–present
Genres
Subject(s)
Spouse
William Stewart
(m. 2008; div. 2013)

Tiffany Cornilia Haddish[1] (born December 3, 1979)[2] is an American stand-up comedienne and actress.[3] Her breakthrough came in with a leading role in the comedy film Girls Trip (2017), which earned her several accolades and was included on The New Yorker's list of the best film performances of the 21st century.[4] She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2018,[5] and The Hollywood Reporter listed her among the 100 most powerful people in entertainment in both 2018 and 2019.[6]

After guest-starring on several television series and a lead role on a cable drama, Haddish gained prominence for her roles in the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show (2015–2017), the TBS series The Last O.G. (2018–2020), and the Apple TV+ comedy series The Afterparty (2022–2023), portraying Detective Danner. She also executive produced and voiced Tuca in the Netflix/Adult Swim animated series Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022). Haddish also starred in films such as Keanu (2016), Night School (2018), Nobody's Fool (2018), The Kitchen (2019), Like a Boss (2020), and Here Today (2021).

She won a Primetime Emmy Award for hosting a Saturday Night Live episode (2017) and published a memoir, The Last Black Unicorn (2017). She also released the album Black Mitzvah in 2019, for which she won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, making her the second African-American woman to win this prize after Whoopi Goldberg in 1986.

  1. ^ Henderson, Cydney (April 25, 2019). "Tiffany Haddish shares a throwback photo of herself 'homeless, hungry, scared' before fame". USA Today. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  2. ^ Libbey, Peter (December 3, 2019). "What's on TV Tuesday: 'Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah' and 'Something Wild'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  3. ^ Kwateng-Clark, Danielle (June 2, 2017). "The Cast of 'Girls Trip' Take Us on an Adventure in ESSENCE's July 2017 Issue". Essence.
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