“Da’Vine on Saturday and Da’Vine with Oscar on Sunday are the same. There’s a trophy in my house, but I’m the same. Coming from Philadelphia, you can’t change, they won’t let you. So I’ll stay the same. who I was. The roles will improve, the money will be bigger, and the issues will be better. I hope that I leave a rich legacy with my work and that it will count. I hope that it will be important to people of all shapes, sizes, colors and genders. However, my soul will remain the same,” she assured Da’Vine Joy Randolph in an interview with Variety.
“Being a woman of color is associated with financial constraints, it is associated with hustle, scheming, hard work. So it was very important for me to show what it means to be in our skin. And at the same time, I wanted my role to be universal. So that everyone could understand me. That’s what I want for all my work, I don’t want to limit myself to ‘black’ films. But I have to go into spaces that we don’t exist in. I want to act with Wes Anderson, David O. Russell, the Coen brothers. I’ve never seen us in them. “- she assured.
Few people know that in “Winter Solstice” the actress wore glasses that belonged to her late grandmother. “I do this in every role. I smuggle in subtle love letters to women of color. In every role I have played, you can find a reference to someone I know personally, someone from history, another actress. I love it because whoever has to know it will he knew,” Randolph admitted.
“Grandma would be overjoyed with my Oscar. No one in my family acted or sang. There was no ‘entertaining’ person in my family. Sometimes I feel like a weirdo because I don’t know where I got my talent from. But they always supported me. They always saw greatness in me and always fueled it,” concluded the Oscar winner.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph was born on May 21, 1986 in Philadelphia. He boasts an impressive education. Initially, she decided to develop a musical career, so she started taking singing lessons. She was inspired by singers such as Maria Callas and Leontyne Price. She discovered a love for opera. She went to Temple University to develop her skills in classical vocal performance and opera. During her first year of college, she also focused on musicals. After graduating from the University of Philadelphia, she entered the Yale School of Drama. In 2011, she graduated from a prestigious school with a master’s degree.
After college, Randolph took matters into her own hands. She hired an agent and moved to Los Angeles to fulfill her big dreams of performing on stage and beyond. She auditioned for TV series, but The key event in her career was her performance on stage. Da’Vine Joy Randolph landed the role of Oda Mae Brown in the 2012 Broadway production of “Ghost the Musical,” which was based on the 1990 film starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
“They were looking for someone 40 or 45 years old, so on paper everything screamed no, no and no,” she told Broadway Buzz. Her dream came true, she received a role in the play, and for her performance she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
The last two years have definitely been Da’Vina Joy Randolph’s time. Although the beginning of her film and TV series career was not a bed of roses, the actress has been regularly seen in the most popular productions for some time now. In 2019, she appeared in the Golden Globe-nominated “My Name is Dolemite”. Three years later she could be seen in the spectacular “The Lost City”. The year 2023 became a real breakthrough.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph appeared in the controversial HBO series “Idol”. As Destiny, she appeared in all episodes of the famous production revealing the secrets of Hollywood. This is not the only series role of the actress. Observant viewers have certainly noticed Randolph in the popular Disney+ production – “Crimes Next Door”, where she played the role of Detective Williams.
The 37-year-old actress appeared in two films that were nominated for an Oscar in 2024. Apart from “Winter Solstice”, she also starred in the drama “Rustin”, which competed for the statuette in the “Best Leading Actor” category.