Angie Stone
Actor
- Born
- December 18, 1961 · Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Died
- March 1, 2025 (age 63)
Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown, December 18, 1961) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, and has won two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. In 2021, she received the Soul Music Icon Award at the Black Music Honors.
She rose to fame in the late 1970s as member of the hip hop trio The Sequence. In the early 1990s, she became a member of the R&B trio Vertical Hold. Stone would later release her solo debut Black Diamond (1999) on Arista Records, which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the single "No More Rain (In This Cloud)".
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After transitioning to J Records, she released her second album, Mahogany Soul (2001), which included the hit single "Wish I Didn't Miss You"; followed by the albums Stone Love (2004) and The Art of Love & War (2007), her first number-one album on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
She ventured into acting in the 2000s, making her film debut in the 2002 comedy film The Hot Chick, and her stage debut in 2003, in the role of Big Mama Morton in the Broadway musical Chicago. She has since appeared in supporting roles in films and television series as well as several musical productions, including VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club and TV One's R&B Divas, and movies such as The Fighting Temptations (2003), Pastor Brown (2009) and School Gyrls (2010).
Known for
Acting20
- 2021Brothers as Marie
- 2021Entanglement as Sadie
- 2018Behind the Movement as Soloist
- 2017To Love The Soul Of A Woman as Ursula Sanders
- 2015Love N Success as Mrs. Brown
- 2015Queens of Soul at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2014My Other Mother as Delores
- 2014Where's the Love? as Wife One
- 2014Ride Along as Market Shopper
- 2013Scary Movie 5
