Filmography Film YearĮpisode: "Readiness Is All" & "Perfect Storm"Īwards and nominations Association In the fall of 2010, Hamilton took a faculty position in the School of Theater for the California Institute of the Arts.
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Hamilton played the role of Melissa in Men of a Certain Age, an hour-long comedy-drama television series starring Ray Romano, Andre Braugher, and Scott Bakula that ran from 2009 to 2011. Keep Climbing Girls was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006. Gregory Christie to turn one of her poems into a children's book. After Richards died in 2000, Hamilton collaborated with illustrator R. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival. Hamilton's film explored Richards' political activism as well as her poetry. Over the next two years, Hamilton made a record of more than 70 hours of their conversations. The two women had met on the set of Beloved (1998). The film tells the story of pioneering black actress Beah Richards, who had broken ground for African-American actresses.
Hamilton won a Peabody Award in 2005 for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Honeydripper directed by John Sayles and The Soloist, directed by Joe Wright. She has worked on several projects with director Rodrigo García, notably his films Ten Tiny Love Stories, Nine Lives, and Mother and Child. Hamilton appeared in over two dozen films, including The Truth About Charlie and Beloved for director Jonathan Demme, Clint Eastwood's True Crime, the independent films Palookaville, Drunks, Showtime's A House Divided, and as Ophelia in director Campbell Scott's film version of Hamlet. More recently, Hamilton earned critical acclaim, her second Obie, and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her role as Suzanne Alexander in Adrienne Kennedy's, The Ohio State Murders. In 1995–96, her portrayal of a young, aspiring South African singer in Athol Fugard's Valley Song garnered an Obie Award, the Clarence Derwent Award, the Ovation nomination for best actress, and a Drama Desk nomination. Hamilton's performances in Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe, Reckless, Family of Mann, and Two Gentlemen of Verona, earned her a reputation as a serious dramatic actor. In one of her first notable roles, she played opposite Kevin Kline in Measure for Measure in the New York Shakespeare Festival. Career Įarly on, Hamilton set her sights on classical theater. She then pursued graduate studies at The Juilliard School where she earned a M.A. She enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University to study theater, but after a year was accepted into New York University's Tisch Drama School where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater in 1985. During the 1970s, she saw several off-Broadway productions by the Negro Ensemble Company, including A Soldier's Story and The First Breeze of Summer. Hamilton fell in love with theater at an early age. Tina eventually earned a master's degree in social work and worked for the Girl Scouts for many years. Ira worked for a while as an engineer and then went into business as a general contractor. Both parents graduated from historically black colleges-Tina attended Talladega while Ira went to Morehouse-and they both became successful professionals. Her father, Ira Winslow Hamilton, Jr., hailed from Bessemer, Alabama, and her mother, the former Eleanor Albertine "Tina" Blackwell, was from Meridian, Mississippi.
Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California but spent most of her childhood in Stony Brook, New York on Long Island. In 2005 she won a Peabody Award for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Hamilton was also an original cast member in the Broadway productions of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. Her theater credits include Measure for Measure (Isabella), Henry IV Parts I & II (Lady Hotspur), Athol Fugard's, Valley Song and The Ohio State Murders. Hamilton's film credits include roles in 12 Monkeys (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Beloved (1998), True Crime (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Soloist (2009), Beastly (2011), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Vice (2018).
She also portrayed Melissa Thoreau on the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011), Celia Jones on the Netflix series House of Cards (2016), Suzanne Simms on the Hulu series Chance (2016), and Kayla Price on the Hulu series The First (2018). She is best known for her role as secretary/lawyer Rebecca Washington on the ABC legal drama The Practice (1997–2003). LisaGay Hamilton is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage.
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