Book Nikki M. James

Nikki M. James won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Nabulungi in the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon, and she appears on the show's Grammy-winning cast recording. The actress, singer and director grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, the daughter of a Vincentian father and a Haitian mother, and sang and acted in church and school productions as a girl, earning a Rising Star Award nomination from Paper Mill Playhouse for playing Dolly Levi in her high school's Hello, Dolly! She went on to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She made her Broadway debut in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, played Ottilie in an Encores! staging of House of Flowers at City Center, and appeared Off-Broadway as Adela in Michael John LaChiusa's Bernarda Alba and on Broadway in All Shook Up. After The Book of Mormon she played Éponine in the 2014 Broadway revival of Les Misérables and later starred as journalist Ida B. Wells in the Broadway musical Suffs. On screen she plays attorney Kirsten McDuffie in the Marvel series Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+.