Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose is an American actress and singer who voiced Princess Tiana in the Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog in 2009, making Tiana the first Black Disney princess. Born in Bloomfield, Connecticut in 1972, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2004 for Caroline, or Change. Her other credits include Dreamgirls, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and Power.