Da'Vine Joy Randolph

CTL-E-6254 · Person · other · 1986–present; active 2011–present

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Da'Vine Joy Randolph is an American actress born May 21, 1986, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the city's Mount Airy neighborhood. She studied classical vocal performance and opera at Temple University, switching to musical theatre in her junior year and graduating in 2008, then earned a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2011, with a summer studying Shakespeare at Oxford through the British American Drama Academy. She gained recognition as Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway production of Ghost in 2012, receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and made her feature film debut in Mother of George in 2013. Screen roles followed in Dolemite Is My Name in 2019 and The United States vs. Billie Holiday in 2021, alongside television work including Only Murders in the Building from 2021. In 2023 she played Mahalia Jackson in Rustin and Mary Lamb, a school cook and bereaved mother, in The Holdovers. The Holdovers performance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 ceremony, together with the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild awards, and in 2024 she received a Primetime Emmy nomination and was named to the Time 100 list.

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Referenced by

• Temple University — has alumnus → this record
• Yale University — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, Da'Vine Joy Randolph (accessed 2026-10-16) — born May 21, 1986, Philadelphia; Temple BFA and Yale MFA; Ghost (2012) Tony nomination as Oda Mae Brown; Dolemite Is My Name (2019); The Holdovers (2023) as Mary Lamb, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, plus Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG awards; Only Murders in the Building from 2021; Emmy nomination 2024; Time 100 in 2024 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%27Vine_Joy_Randolph (build store)
• City of Philadelphia, Council Resolution No. 240199 (adopted March 14, 2024) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Philadelphia native with roots in Mt. Airy; Interlochen; Temple vocal performance and opera, then musical theatre; Yale drama and Shakespeare study at Oxford; Ghost on Broadway in 2012; Dolemite Is My Name and The United States vs. Billie Holiday; Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Holdovers; Golden Globe in 2024 — https://philadelphia.legistar1.com/philadelphia/attachments/102e318a-e017-486d-9309-ca2410adfd54.pdf (primary source · build store)

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