Angelica Ross: Last News

Michelle Williams will be honored with a Performer Tribute during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards, taking place live and in-person on November 28, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. 

Angelica Ross is set to become the first transgender actress to play Roxie Hart in 'Chicago'. The 41-year-old 'Pose' star will make her Broadway debut in the long-running musical later this year, playing murderous vixen Roxie for eight weeks from September 12. Actresses who have previously played Roxie include Pamela Anderson, Melanie Griffith, Christie Brinkley, Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields and Lisa Rinna.

Pose star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in Chicago this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.Ross, 41, whose credits also include American Horror Story: 1984, will start an eight-week run beginning September 12 at the Ambassador Theatre.She will join a Broadway opening its arms to transgender actors. Glowing:Pose star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in Chicago this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie HartIn 2018, Ru Paul´s Drag Race star Peppermint became the first openly trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway, starring in the Go-Go´s jukebox musical Head Over Heels.This spring, L Morgan Lee made history as the first openly transgender person to be nominated and go on to win a Tony Award for her work as a featured actress in the musical A Strange Loop.

Angelica Ross is making her Broadway debut next month and it will be historic!

Angelica Ross is about to make history with her Broadway debut. Ross will become the first openly transgender woman to play a leading role on Broadway when she takes over as Roxie Hart in the long-running starting in September. Ross will step into the iconic role for a limited, eight-week engagement through November while also following in the footsteps of notable film and TV stars to take on Roxie, including Pamela Anderson, Mel B, Christie Brinkley, Erika Jayne, Brandy Norwood, Melanie Griffith, Robin Givens and many, many more. As Roxie, Ross will continue to break down barriers for the transgender community on stage.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCheyenne Jackson is adding producer to his resume. The actor and singer has quietly launched a production company, Shiny Boy Entertainment, with his husband Jason Landau, the couple exclusively tells me.Their first project is “Brutal,” director Sam McConnell’s comedy short about a news anchor (Jackson) who acquires a leaked sex tape of a longtime U.S. senator.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“Framing Agnes,” a hybrid narrative and documentary feature film that explores trans lives and history, has sold North American distribution rights to Kino Lorber.Directed by Chase Joynt, the film closely and accurately depicts the journey of trans people past and present through reenactments of transcripts from a notable 1960s UCLA gender study. Based on a short by Joynt which premiered and nabbed awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the project features a cast of trans performers and academics that includes Jules Gill-Peterson, Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard and Stephen Ira.The film will make its New York premiere at NewFest on June 5, followed by a theatrical release from Kino Lorber in December. Joynt and Morgan M.

Queer identities have long been placed into a stereotypical box in entertainment, particularly on television. And if we did happen to get LGBTQIA+ characters that were nuanced, layered, and multi-dimensional, they most often were not Black.

The SpringHill Company have partnered up to release a new installment of Recipe for Change, the original series where celebrities, activists, and creators come together for a chef-prepared meal to discuss important topics dealing with gender and race.Directed by Joie Jacoby, Recipe for Change: Amplifying Black Women, highlights the resilience of Black women as they navigate the beautiful but complicated world around them. This edition comes after the success of the Daytime Emmy Award-Nominated Recipe for Change: Stop Asian Hate, and the recently released Recipe for Change: Standing Up To Antisemitism.The special will have Mary J.

NewFest, the New York film and media organizations has announced the full lineup for its second annual NewFest Pride event – a summer film series returning this year from June 2-6 in a hybrid format featuring a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels and virtual screenings. The announcement was made today by NewFest’s Executive Director David Hatkoff and Director of Programming Nick McCarthy.

Caer, an innovative and illuminating semi-documentary about trans Latin women in present-day New York, particularly those willingly employed as sex workers.On the flipside of that is Framing Agnes, the latest from director Chase Joynt, which is just now starting to hit the festival circuit after its recent Sundance debut.The film features an all-star cast including Angelica Ross (Pose), Jen Richards (Disclosure), Zackary Drucker (Transparent), and Silas Howard (Tales of the City), helping to shed light on a little-known slice of real-life and scientific research, specifically the story of a pioneering transgender woman who participated in gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s.Also on tap is a special retrospective screening of By Hook or By Crook, the landmark trans buddy film from 2001 directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. All screenings will be offered with subtitles or captions to maximize accessibility.Streaming starts on Thursday, May 5.

Chrissy Teigen is hitting the red carpet!

The transgender goddesses of FX's Pose - Angelica Ross, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Indya Moore - reunited to serve presenting duties at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards in Century City, CA on Sunday.It was hours after Indya took to Instagram to express her outrage over Jussie Smollett's five-month jail sentence for felony disorderly conduct pertaining to making false police reports.The 27-year-old Bronx native - who's non-binary - said they found it 'very difficult to believe' the Empire alum staged his own hate crime, and Angelica commented on their 10-slide post: 'All of this.' Transgender goddesses of FX's Pose: Angelica Ross, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Indya Moore reunited to serve presenting duties at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards in Century City, CA on SundayWhen Jussie was sentenced in Chicago on Thursday he defiantly declared he was 'not suicidal' and 'innocent' of paying the Osundairo brothers $3,500 to assault him and tie a noose around his neck back in 2019.Moore took the plunge in a pink sequin gown featuring a thigh-high slit and gold stilettos selected by stylist Ian Bradley. The Escape Room: Tournament of Champions star carried a matching clutch and bared their back in the dramatic dress that had a massive golden train.Indya portrayed sex worker-turned-model Angel Vasquez-Evangelista for all three seasons of the nineties-set groundbreaking show, which is up for best drama series.

Niecy Nash and wife Jessica Betts are celebrating their love!

EXCLUSIVE: Framing Agnes filmmaker Chase Joynt, his producing partner Samantha Curley and their production company, Level Ground Productions, have signed with WME for representation, on the heels of the  documentary’s world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

The first teaser for American Horror Story: Double Feature is here, and it’s teasing a lot of eeriness to come!

EXCLUSIVE:  Sources tell us that Yellowstone alum Neal McDonough is set to play the series regular role of Dwight ‘Ike’ Eisenhower in season 10 of Ryan Murphy’s FX series American Horror Story: Double Feature.

Angelica Ross, Indya Moore and Janet Mock turned up the glamour factor at the Pose season three premiere in New York this week.The stars of the FX program posed up a storm at Jazz At Lincoln Center on Wednesday evening in aid of the its final season.Janet, 38, showed off her cleavage in a skintight gold gown that emphasized her statuesque figure as she strutted her stuff for the cameras.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Pose” star Angelica Ross understands what it’s like to struggle, to be homeless and not know where your next meal’s coming from.But nothing was going to stop her from pushing forward with TransTech, her now-six-year-old organization that provides job training and professional support for transgender men and women, and people who identify as non-binary and gender non-conforming.“What people didn’t realize was when I had the office in Chicago for TransTech, when we closed, I worked late nights so that I could out-stay the security so that they didn’t know that I was sleeping in the office,” Ross tells Variety from her home in Atlanta.

Yes, Girl! click play below:If there is one thing Angelica Ross, former star of Pose and American Horror Story is clear about, it’s her purpose. Her famously storied trajectory as a Black trans woman has garnered the attention of millions from her activism work to her career in entertainment.

After the 2020 Emmy Awards nominations were announced this morning, many fans noticed a few worthy names that were left off the list – particularly in Pose stars Angelica Ross and Indya Moore.