EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed actress, playwright, and TV creator and writer Danielle Pinnock for representation.
Currently, Pinnock is a series regular on CBS’s #1 comedy series, Ghosts, now in production on its fourth season. In a breakout role, which recently garnered her the Hollywood Creative Alliance Astra Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, she plays Alberta, a Prohibition-era lounge singer turned ghost who is trapped in a modern-day country estate recently inherited by two unexpecting new tenants.
Pinnock last year made her feature film debut in Amazon Studio’s Candy Cane Lane for Prime Video, which starred Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross and Nick Offerman. Other notable screen credits include recurring for four seasons on the CBS comedy Young Sheldon, plus Epix’s Get Shorty opposite Ray Romano and Peter Bogdanovich. Additionally, she’s guest starred on A Black Lady Sketch Show, This Is Us, Scandal and other series, while lending her voice to Netflix’s Boss Baby: Back in Business, Cartoon Network’s Thundercats Roar, and Peacock’s Where’s Waldo?.
Previously, Pinnock also co-created and starred opposite LaNisa Renee Frederick in the digital sketch series Hashtag Booked, which won a Webby Award for its painfully funny depiction of the joys and misfortunes of being an actress of color in the entertainment industry. She is also developing (alongside Punam Patel) an adult-aimed animated project, Unmentionables, about mismatched underwear and the millennial human who wears them, to be produced for television by Emmy winner Anthony Hemingway and Taraji P. Henson.
Mentored by actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, Pinnock is a classically trained stage actress and playwright whose body acceptance-themed solo show Body/Courage was created from over 300 real-life interviews. She has also appeared Off-Broadway and at the Edinburgh Fringe in the award-winning play, In Conflict, and has performed at major regional theaters including Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and D.C.’s famed Kennedy Center, among many others.
