Chanté Adams

Chanté Adams is an American actress who started performing as a student at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where she was born and raised, and later earned a degree from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. After moving to New York to pursue acting, she was cast as the lead in Roxanne Roxanne (2017), a biopic about the rapper Roxanne Shanté, and took the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance for it. Roles in Monsters and Men (2018), Bad Hair (2020) and The Photograph (2020) followed, and in 2021 she starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in A Journal for Jordan, a romantic drama directed by Denzel Washington. She co-starred in 2022 in A League of Their Own, the Amazon series based on the 1992 film.