As an actor, Nadine Ellis has played a range of incredible women on television over the years--both fictional and non-fictional, including unsung NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson on NBC’s “Timeless.” Most recently she can be seen as the lead and matriarch of the Franklin family in the Fox drama “Our Kind of People.” She has also led an ensemble cast, as a series regular, in BET’s comedy “Let’s Stay Together,” played a meddling mom in “The Greenhouse Academy,” and prescribed drama while recurring on “Shameless” as Dr. Williams. In her 20-year dance career, she’s had the opportunity to work with prestigious talent including leading the Dynamites in the film Hairspray, dancing with Beyonce at the VMA’s, and she got her start as one of the original Pussycat Dolls.
