Antonique Smith
Jun 1, 2014
Antonique Smith is an American Broadway, film and television actress, singer and songwriter. Smith was born in East Orange, New Jersey. Smith is well known for her starring as Mimi in Jonathan Larson's Broadway production of Rent. She was also the poster girl for Rent, displayed on taxi cabs in NYC and posters across the country. Smith left the role of Mimi in the musical Rent on Broadway to record her album and expand her film career.
Antonique is now most famous for her role as Faith Evans in Notorious, based on the life of Evans' late husband, rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. She received rave reviews. The L.A. Times called her "delicious in the role" and Rolling Stone Magazine said she was "terrific". She was also praised by critics, including Jeffery Lyons who called her "one to watch".
Antonique played CIA agent Sandra Burns in the action movie "Abduction" opposite Taylor Lautner and Alfred Molina. Antonique had a featured role in the Golden Globe nominated "Across The Universe" and has also guest starred on numerous hit TV shows including Law & Order and HBO's Bored To Death and the Sidney Lumet directed "100 Centre Street" on A&E. Antonique was heralded as "an amazing actress with a great career ahead of her", by the legendary Sidney Lumet who gave Antonique her first job. She played a teen drug addict. She was also the voice of Virgin Mobile USA. Smith also recently starred in Rick Ross' "Amsterdam" music video which got over 8 million views in its first 2 days of release. "Amsterdam" is a song off of Ross' #1 album "God Forgives, I Don't".
Antonique's latest single is entitled, "Hold Up Wait A Minute (Woo Woo)."