Tiffany Boone
Tiffany Boone is an actor, born 1987.
Baltimore produced her and American television raised her. The earliest credit listed here is a 2009 episode of Southland, and the work since has been steady rather than sudden: Mimi in Detention and Savannah Snow in Beautiful Creatures came early, and Mandy Lang in the second season of The Following was the first part that asked her for real damage.
Her specialty, if the record is read honestly, is playing the person a story happens to rather than the person driving it, and making that position interesting anyway. Jerrika on The Chi, Roxy Jones in Hunters, Delilah in Nine Perfect Strangers, Gwen Fontaine in The Big Cigar: each of those is somebody's partner, colleague or foil, and not one of them is a passenger when she plays it. The most technically demanding job in the list is Young Mia in Little Fires Everywhere, which required her to match an established lead's adult performance closely enough for an audience to accept them as the same woman. That is imitation and invention at once, and it is the credit to look at if you want to know what she can do.
The recent turn is toward scale: Maya in The Midnight Sky, and Sarabi in Mufasa: The Lion King, which is the biggest platform she has had.
Movies (5)
TV (7)
Where to start with Tiffany Boone
Go to Little Fires Everywhere first, even though the role is supporting. Playing the younger version of another actor's character is a specific technical challenge and she meets it, which tells you more about her range than a lead role would.
Then The Chi, which gives her the most sustained dramatic work on the page and a character with a life of her own rather than a supporting function. Hunters is the pulpiest thing here and Roxy is its most watchable member. The Midnight Sky and Nine Perfect Strangers are the prestige detours, both mixed as productions and both fine for her. Mufasa: The Lion King is the one to put on for a child. Of the early work, Beautiful Creatures is the more polished and Detention much the more chaotic, and only one of the two is trying to be a good film.