Among the country's preeminent dramatists, Suzan-Lori Parks has won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her play Topdog-Underdog and a 2012 Tony for an adaptation of Porgy and Bess.
Along the way Parks, 57, has dipped a toe in Hollywood, as far back as 1996's Girl 6, which she wrote for Spike Lee. In recent years, she's ramped up her screenwriting efforts — first with Native Son, the 2019 film adaptation of Richard Wright's landmark 1940 novel, and next with The United States vs.
Billie Holiday (out Feb. 26 on Hulu). The biopic, with Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day in the title role, follows the unlikely romance between the jazz giant and Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes), the federal agent assigned to nab her on a drugs charge during a sting.
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