Chanté Adams

Chanté Adams is an accomplished American actress, born on December 16, 1994. She is well-recognized for her breakout role in the 2017 biopic, Roxanne Roxanne, a performance which won her the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she began her acting journey as a student at Cass Technical High School. She later expanded her skills by obtaining a degree from Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious School of Drama. Following graduation, she pursued her dreams in New York City.

In a whirlwind turn of events, Adams was invited to audition for the lead role in the Roxanne Shanté biopic just a month after relocating to the Big Apple. She not only landed the role, but started filming merely eight days later. Apart from Roxanne Roxanne, Adams has made her mark in screen work, featuring in movies such as Monsters and Men (2018), Bad Hair (2020) and The Photograph (2020). In 2021, she shared the screen with the esteemed Michael B. Jordan in the romantic drama, A Journal For Jordan, directed by none other than Denzel Washington. In 2022, she had a co-starring role in Amazon's television adaptation of A League of their Own, alongside D'Arcy Carden, Abbi Jacobson, Roberta Colindrez, Kelly McCormack, and Priscilla Delgado.