Say Her Name: Why Danielle Brooks is More Than the Characters She Plays

PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN MIDGLEYHAIR: TISH CELESTINEMAKEUP: MICHAEL PATTERSONDanielle Brooks is Brooklyn Magazine's first ever Digital Cover Star.
If the mark of a brilliant actor is blurring the boundary between themselves and the characters they play, the mark of an equally intelligent audience is identifying where that boundary begins and ends, so we are not lost in the performance. But because we live in a culture obsessed with the belief that the only boundaries that exist are the o