Celia Rose Gooding

Celia Rose Gooding (/ˈsɛliə/;[1] born February 22, 2000) is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut and rose to prominence for the role of Mary Frances “Frankie” Healy in the rock musical Jagged Little Pill for which she 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. Her mother is LaChanze, an American actress, singer, and dancer. She plays the role of Nyota Uhura in the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Gooding was raised in New York, New York. She was born to actress, singer and dancer LaChanze,[2] and Calvin Gooding, who died in the September 11th attacks. She has one sister, Zaya.[3]

Gooding attended the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, with her sister,[4] and graduated with honors in performing arts. She occasionally took leaves from high school to do readings for a musical she was involved in developing, Jagged Little Pill. In the workshop during her junior year, she had three hours of tutoring in the morning before rehearsals, to replace regular schooling.[5] Her senior project revolved around her participation in the show’s out-of-town tryout at the end of her senior year. Her other training included studying dance at the Alvin Ailey Institute and studying Acting and Film with a concentration in Shakespeare at the Berridge Conservatory in Normandy.