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Ariana DeBose rocketed to superstardom aft the merchandise of West Side Story and a starring relation successful Hamilton. After stealing the amusement successful the 2021 philharmonic movie adaptation, the 32-year-old triple menace is present acceptable to big the legendary Tony Awards, for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, connected June 11, 2023, successful New York. The amusement volition diagnostic performances by Lea Michele and the Funny Girl cast, and the casts of & Juliet, Parade, Into The Woods, and more. The producers of the amusement made the announcement that Ariana is hosting connected April 12, and Ariana was thrilled to accept.
“I was honored to service arsenic big past twelvemonth and adjacent much truthful to beryllium asked back,” she said successful a connection obtained by Deadline. “So looking guardant to celebrating this unthinkable play and the radical who marque the enactment happen. Here’s to adding immoderate uptown spirit to the magic of the Tony Awards.”
Ariana already proved her singing, dancing and acting chops with West Side Story, and anterior to that she dazzled successful Netflix’s The Prom. She’s adjacent a Tony nominee for her outstanding enactment successful Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. From her Broadway past to her idiosyncratic life, here’s what you should cognize astir Ariana.
Ariana DeBose arsenic Anita successful ‘West Side Story.’ (Niko Tavernise/20th Century FOX)
Ariana DeBose is an Oscar winner.
Ariana triumphed astatine the 2022 Oscars for her relation arsenic Anita successful West Side Story, taking location a historical Best Supporting Actress trophy. “Now you spot wherefore Anita says, ‘I privation to beryllium successful America,’ because, adjacent successful this weary satellite that we unrecorded in, dreams bash travel true, and that’s truly a heartening close now,” she said successful her acceptance speech, adding that her predecessor Rita Moreno was “the divine inspiration” for the performance. It’s worthy noting that Rita played the aforesaid relation successful 1961 and took location the aforesaid grant astatine the 1962 Academy Awards.
The grant was a milestone with superior value — Ariana became the first openly queer pistillate of colour to snag the coveted award. GLAAD’s president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis released a connection astatine the clip connected the historical win.
“Ariana DeBose is an immensely talented histrion and a tremendous advocator for LGBTQ radical and radical of color,” Sarah Kate stated. “She not lone made past contiguous arsenic the archetypal queer pistillate of colour to triumph an Oscar, but she sent a beauteous and timely connection to LGBTQ young people. I anticipation LGBTQ younker astir the satellite saw her win, heard her talk and admit that they excessively should imagination big.”
Her Partner’s Name Is Sue Makkoo.
After her large Oscar win, Ariana was seen glowing and holding hands with her spouse Sue Makkoo, 52, astatine the Vanity Fair Oscar afterparty. The Broadway costume decorator and histrion met portion moving connected Summer: The Donna Summer Musical back successful 2018, truthful they’ve been unneurotic for astir 5 years.
Ariana DeBose was successful ‘Hamilton.’
The gorgeous histrion played a “secret” relation successful Hamilton, which has been wide discussed. Though she didn’t person each that galore lines, her pivotal quality “The Bullet” was an entity of fascination backmost successful 2021. “I benignant of connected the dots for myself erstwhile it came to portraying The Bullet. I don’t truly adjacent deliberation our creators knew what I was doing erstwhile I was doing it,” she told Yahoo Entertainment UK in 2021.
Ariana added that she thought it was “cool” that truthful galore radical seemed to beryllium enamored with the tiny role. “I conscionable viewed it arsenic this happening that could truly instrumentality connected a beingness of its own,” she told the outlet. “I deliberation astatine the clip I was performing the show, it wasn’t delineated arsenic a relation successful the playbill. I was conscionable playing Woman 3. But it has been truly chill to spot however galore radical truly took to it erstwhile the movie came retired connected Disney+.”
“I americium honored that radical saw it, person enjoyed it and small easter eggs similar that support radical coming backmost to it clip aft clip aft time. It tickles maine to cognize I’m adjacent a small portion of that.”
Ariana DeBose astatine the ‘West Side Story’ premiere. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
Her parent is an 8th people teacher.
Ariana’s mother, Gina DeBose, is an 8 people teacher. Though the histrion has ne'er revealed the individuality of her father, she has shared that helium is Puerto Rican, portion her parent is white. Ariana erstwhile shared a heartwarming representation of her parent visiting the acceptable of West Side Story and gathering manager Steven Spielberg. “My parent got to visit, and she met Señor Spielberg,” she told PEOPLE in 2022. “And watching Gina go speechless was amazing. Love you, Mom.”
Ariana DeBose went viral with Angela Bassett rap.
Ariana went viral connected Twitter with a rap show astatine the 76th British Academy Film Awards connected February 19, 2023. The energetic ditty celebrated the pistillate nominees astatine the event, and 1 enactment successful peculiar gained traction arsenic a popular civilization infinitesimal — “Angela Bassett did the thing.”
Ariana seemed bemused by the full thing, taking to Instagram connected Feb 25 to stock her thoughts. “The net is chaotic y’all!” she captioned a collection of videos and pics from the show and the resulting hoopla. “Appreciate each the love.”
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