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May 21, 2021 · The Equalizer's Lorraine Toussaint on Keeping Secrets, Law & Order and Black Lives Matter. K.L. Connie Wang. May 21, 2021. The reboot of The Equalizer with Queen Latifah playing the...
Apr 23, 2023 · ‘The Equalizer’: Lorraine Toussaint on Why It Was Important to Put Vi in Physical Danger. Meredith Jacobs April 23, 2023, 9:00 pm. 2 Comments. Spoiler Alert. Michael Greenberg/CBS. More....
Apr 30, 2023 · With the Equalizer on a quick break between episodes, Lorraine Toussaint explained what she loves and is proud of from the CBS series.
Apr 24, 2023 · The Equalizer addressed domestic violence in a powerful new episode for Vi, and actress Lorraine Toussaint spoke about the experience. Warning: spoilers ahead for the April 23 episode of The...
- The Equalizer (2021)—“Viola ‘Vi’ Marsette”
- She-Ra and The Princesses of Power (2018-2020)—“Shadow Weaver/Light Spinner”
- Into The Badlands (2018-2019)—“Cressida”
- Orange Is The New Black (2013-2019)—“Yvonne ‘Vee’ Parker”
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)—“Pearl Stone”
- Any Day Now (1998-2002)— “Rene Jackson”
- Hudson Hawk (1991)—“Almond Joy”
- One Life to Live (1988)—“Vera Williams”
The A.V. Club:In The Equalizer,you play Aunt Vi, who provides support and knowledge for Queen Latifah’s character, Robyn McCall. What aspect of Viola are you most looking forward to audiences getting to know? Lorraine Toussaint:The last few years, whenever I’ve gotten the opportunity to luxuriate in motherhood, I’ve jumped at it because it really d...
AVC: The Shadow Weaver we met at the beginning of She-Raversus the one we met at the end of the series were two totally different beings. What was your parting judgment of Shadow Weaver by the time of her demise? LT: Listen, if there’s one thing I love, it’s complexity.And where there is no complexity, I will infuse some just because. But Shadow We...
LT: One of my favorites. Quiet as it’s kept, very few people have seen it. It’s got its cult following, but it’s up there with being one of my absolute favorite things I’ve ever done.I loved putting her together because we had a great costume designer, but the visuals of her—how Cressida finally looked with the hair, the tattoos, and the scarificat...
AVC:There are very few roles that send a chill down my spine like Yvonne “Vee” Parker. The first season of Orange Is The New Blackmainly established the characters and the environment, but Vee showed up in season two as the first Big Bad, the outsider. Was there a moment with Vee that sincerely chilled you? LT: There were lots of moments that chill...
LT: I did Queen with Halle Berry 10 years before [Their Eyes Were Watching God] and she’s one of my faves as a woman and as a lovely actor. She’s really coming into her own and reinventing yourself yet again. I think her talent has yet to be fully recognized. It was my first meeting of the minds with Oprah and that level of a creative camp. I don’t...
LT:I think what we did on that show has yet to be done on television. The issues we took on are so relevant and needed today. We addressed race with a kind of courage and resilience, and we just did not give up until we told as much truth as we were capable of at that moment. I remember early on Annie Potts and I committed ourselves to outing our c...
LT:Oh my god, the movie that would not end. I think it was one of the first of its kind where we were so far over budget and so far over time—a two-month film took four months to finally finish. I can remember David Caruso and I trying to wash blue jeans in the bathtub because there was no place to do laundry, so we had to wash all of our clothes o...
AVC: Was there a key lesson that you learned from your very first role that helped you throughout your career? LT: I just gotten out of Juilliard and was doing regional theater. To be able to get something on camera, I didn’t know what I was doing at all. Back then, they didn’t even teach on-camera skills in the conservatory. You were only given yo...
Toussaint later co-starred in the ABC fantasy-drama series Forever (2014–15), Fox comedy-drama Rosewood (2015–17) and AMC drama Into the Badlands (2018–19). She starred in the 2019 horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. She portrays Viola Marsette in CBS re-imagining series The Equalizer.
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May 21, 2021 · Catch the season finale of the hit show 'The Equalizer' starring Queen Latifa and Lorraine Toussaint on Sunday.
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