Tracee Chimo is an American stage and film actress, best known for portraying Regan in Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, originating the role of Fanka Silberman in Irena's Vow

Irena's Vow

Irena's Vow is a Broadway play recounting the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who, at the risk of her life, saved twelve Jews during World War II in German-occupied Poland.-Production history:...

as well as originating the role of Lauren in Annie Baker

Annie Baker

-Career:Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned her MFA from Brooklyn College....

’s “Circle Mirror Transformation,” a hit that closed in January, 2010 after several extensions at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work....

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She plays Margaret in the upcoming Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his work in comedy films, especially for films he has been involved with throughout the latter half of the 2000s. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, a film production company that also developed the...

 film The Five-Year Engagement, starring Jason Segel

Jason Segel

Jason Jordan Segel is an American television and film actor, screenwriter, composer, puppeteer and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man,...

 and Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress best known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada , The Young Victoria , and The Adjustment Bureau . She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award...

She splits her time between living in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

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Awards and Nominations

2011 Stage Scene Award LA for "Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Drama" for her work in Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute

Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver. LaBute is of French Canadian, English and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane,...

's The Break of Noon

2011 Clarence Derwent Award on June 14th for "most promising actress in New York City"

2011 Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel was an American actress and theater producer who is remembered as the namesake of an off-Broadway playhouse and theatrical award....

 Nomination for "Outstanding Lead Actress" in Bachelorette

2010 Drama Desk Award

Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...

 for "Outstanding Ensemble Performance" in Circle Mirror Transformation

2010 Obie Award

Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...

 for her performance in Circle Mirror Transformation

2010 Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel was an American actress and theater producer who is remembered as the namesake of an off-Broadway playhouse and theatrical award....

 Nomination for "Outstanding Featured Actress" in Circle Mirror Transformation

Quotes About Her Work

"The cast is uniformly winning, but Ms. Chimo’s Lauren stands out as a symbol of childlike authenticity." - Anita Gates, New York Times

"...Chimo turns out to be a master of the comic silent reaction." - Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

"Ms. Chimo, so superb as the mousy nerd in Annie Baker’s “Circle Mirror Transformation,” proves equally terrific as this cold, confident but emotionally brittle manipulator." - Charles Isherwood

Charles Isherwood

-External Links:* at The New York Times* at Variety...

, New York Times

“She’s like a predatory beast, slinging herself around, arching her back, flinging her lioness’s mane of hair. It feels like only someone who has had years and years of dance training would be able to be in that much control and command of her body.” - Trip Cullman, director of Bachelorette

"If, at the same time, you could meet the shy, expressionless Lauren, mumbling into the wall of her red hoodie, and the glittering, claws-extended Regan, the meanest predator on the hunt, it would be hard to believe that they are the same person underneath." - Erik Piepenburg, New York Times

External links

• Tracee Chimo on IBDB
• Tracee Chimo on IMDb