Tawny Newsome

Tawny Newsome is an American actress, musician, comedian, and writer best known for playing Chelsea Leight-Leigh on Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, co-starring in Space Force and the third season of Brockmire, and co-hosting the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?. She is also a singer in the band Four Lost Souls. She voiced one of the main characters, Beckett Mariner, on Star Trek: Lower Decks and has recently appeared in Starfleet Academy as Professor Illa Dax, a new host of the Dax Symbiont.

Early life

Tawny Newsome was born on February 24, 1983 in Vacaville, California to a Biracial couple and grew up on a Ranch that her mother still lives on. As a teenager she was a junior Rodeo champion. Newsome attended the DePaul Theatre School in Chicago. After graduating she became a regular performer in Chicago Theatre. Newsome was a member of The Second City from 2013-2014.

Career

Newsome was a backup singer in a touring Talking Heads tribute band. This later led to her being cast in Documentary Now! in a similar role.

Newsome's first major television roles were as Chelsea Leight-Leigh on Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ and Nina on The Comedy Get Down.

Newsome has been a co-host of the podcast Yo, Is This Racist? alongside Andrew Ti since 2018. She also appears as a frequent guest on podcasts such as Comedy Bang! Bang! and Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins.

Newsome is also a musician and is a member of the band Four Lost Souls alongside Jon Langford, Bethany Thomas, and John Szymanski. The group released a debut self-titled album in 2017.

Newsome was in the main cast of Brockmire in its third season. She was also cast in the 2019 ABC pilot Woman Up. She was cast as a lead voice in the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Lower Decks.

She appeared in a lead role as Maj. Angela Ali in the Netflix series Space Force starting in 2020.

Since 2020, Newsome has co-hosted Star Trek: The Pod Directive, the official Star Trek podcast, along with comedian Paul F. Tompkins.

Personal life

Since 2020 Newsome and her husband have lived in Southern California.

Filmography

As actor

Film roles

Television roles

As writer

External links

• at IMDb