Renee Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California, and raised in both
Houston, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from
Carnegie-Mellon University with a bachelors degree in acting, and went
on to attend graduate school at the University of Southern California,
where she received her masters in vocal jazz performance.
She has worked in numerous Broadway plays, including a production of
Disney's "The Lion King" in 2003 (as "Nala"). She also appears in the
daytime drama
One Life to Live (1968) as
the determined lawyer Evangeline Williamson.