Lorraine Toussaint

Lorraine Toussaint is an American actress and producer.

Toussaint was born in Trinidad. In an interview she said I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children very, very strict a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human. Childhood for me then felt extraordinarily powerless, and as an artistic child who learned in alternative ways, it was hell. I was beaten regularly... A good child was a fearful child, and I was a very, very, good child, which meant I lived in a world of silent, dark terror most of the time. Her mother was a teacher, and brought Toussaint to live in Brooklyn in the late 1960s.

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