- Born
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Celia Rose Gooding is an American actress and singer. They made their Broadway debut and rose to prominence for the role of Mary Frances "Frankie" Healy in the rock musical Jagged Little Pill for which they won a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and was nominated for a 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical, becoming one of the youngest nominees in the category at age 20. Their mother is LaChanze, an American actress, singer, and dancer. Gooding plays the role of Nyota Uhura in the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022-present).- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- ParentsCalvin Gooding
- Celia Rose Gooding was about one and a half (and her mother, LaChanze, was eight months pregnant with her younger sister, Zaya) when Celia's father (LaChanze's husband, Cantor Fitzgerald securities trader Calvin Gooding) was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
- Celia Rose Gooding and her mother, the Tony-winning Broadway star LaChanze, are the first mother and daughter in history to perform on Broadway simultaneously. In December 2019, LaChanze was in A Christmas Carol while Celia was in Jagged Little Pill.
- In 2021 she won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
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