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Joaquina Kalukango

Joaquina Kalukango

Actor · Born September 2, 1989 (37) · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Screen Actors Guild Award nominee

Joaquina Kalukango is an American actor and singer best known for playing Nelly O'Brien in the Broadway musical Paradise Square, for which she won the 2022 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play in 2020 for portraying Kaneisha in Slave Play. In addition to her theatre work, Kalukango has appeared in One Night in Miami..., When They See Us and Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Kalukango is a 2007 YoungArts alumnus. She graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Juilliard School. Kalukango is of Angolan descent, and her parents arrived in the United States as political refugees. Due to her heritage, Kalukango wants to work on roles that showcase the Black experience.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
September 2, 1989 (37)
From
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Works as
Actor
Titles
8 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all

What are Joaquina Kalukango's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 4 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 0

Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0

Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1

A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1

Roles they play

2 analyzed roles

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Hopeful
3
Contemplative
2
Triumphant
2
Bittersweet
2
Melancholic
2
Other
1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Joaquina Kalukango's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (2).

Subscription and free streaming for Joaquina Kalukango's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

10 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Career shape

Star power in the 68th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 10 titles, 9 of them dated from 2019 to 2025.

Film career

MilestoneNomination

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting10 of 10: 10 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score67th

By decade

2010s2 · acting2020s7 · acting

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

Nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2021, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Joaquina Kalukango's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 72nd percentile, the median of the 4 of 5 with a score; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 73rd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

73rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Approval · how many liked their films

70thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Reach · how many have seen their films

65thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Midcredits score across 7 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up3
  • 50th to 74th4

Reviewers score the acting 77/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 87, detractors 45. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Joaquina Kalukango work with?

People who share at least 2 of Joaquina Kalukango's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Adam Sliwinski shares the most, 2.

Cinematographers

Producers