Terry Gross
speaker
23,578 appearances
400 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 276 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 77.
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Our co-host is Tanya Mosley.
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I'm Terry Gross.
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This is Fresh Air.
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I'm Terri Gross.
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When Danielle Brooks started appearing in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black as the character Tasty, she was astonished to find she was recognized wherever she went.
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Orange was about women in prison, and Brooks played one of those women.
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When the series premiered in twenty thirteen, Brooks was a recent graduate of Juilliard, and Netflix was relatively new to producing original content.
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Two years later, while still filming Orange, she learned she'd gotten a role in the Broadway revival of the color purple as Sophia, the character that Oprah Winfrey played in the 1985 film.
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Rather than giving up one of those roles, she continued to shoot Orange while also performing on Broadway.
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The color purple had special significance for Daniel Brooks.
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The original production of the musical was the first Broadway show she'd ever seen.
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It convinced her she wanted to act and that there might be a place for a black woman like her.
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She was nominated for a Tony for her performance in the revival and was nominated for an Oscar when she played Sophia again in the twenty twenty three movie adaptation of the Broadway musical.
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While preparing for this interview, I learned she played the beloved gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a twenty twenty one biopic for the Lifetime Channel that's now streaming on several platforms.
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She gets to do a lot of singing in that, and as you'll hear later, it really shows off how emotionally and physically powerful her voice is.
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Brooke started singing and acting in church.
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Her mother is a minister, her father is a recently required.
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to the retired deacon.
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Brooks was also recently in a Minecraft movie and in the series Peacemaker.
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Now she's in a new indie film called If I Go, Will They Miss Me.
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