Anika Noni Rose is best known for voicing Tiana, Disney’s first African-American princess, in the 2009 feature, The Princess and the Frog. She was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Rose also starred in the Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls and received a 2004 Tony for her role as Emmie Thibodeaux in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change. For the 2014 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.