Born 1963 (age 63) · Queens, New York, USA
Appears in 6 titles

Tracy Camilla Johns (born April 12, 1963) is an American film actress. She is known for her feature film debut in the leading role as Nola Darling in Spike Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It. She was nominated for Best Female Lead for this role at the 1987 Independent Spirit Awards. Johns appeared in an Air Jordan advertisement with Lee and Michael Jordan in 1988,[citation needed] and in the same year in the music video for Tone Lōc's 1988 single "Wild Thing". Johns later appeared in the films Mo' Better Blues (1990) and New Jack City (1991), and in roles in the TV series Family Ties, She's Gotta Have It, and Snoops. Johns returned to the role of Nola Darling in Lee's 2012 film Red Hook Summer, playing the character as an older woman who had become a Jehovah's Witness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracy Camilla Johns licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

New Jack City
6.7
New Jack City
1991
as Uniqua
She's Gotta Have It
6.6
She's Gotta Have It
1986
as Nola Darling
Mo' Better Blues
6.5
Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Club Patron
Red Hook Summer
5.4
Red Hook Summer
2012
as Mother Darling