Jennifer Holliday is an American singer and actress. She is best known for her role as Dorothy in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" and for her performance in the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, "9 to 5: The Musical." She has received various honors and awards, including a 2001 NAACP Image Award and a 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series. Holliday's career went through many ups and downs. After the opening of the show "Dreamgirls," she was dropped from manager Beau Thorne's management agency, and shortly after that, was charged with DUI and arrested on drug charges
Holliday managed to get through this turmoil and has since become successful again. She has released two albums, one in 1999 and the other in 2005.
I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.Jennifer Holliday
I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.Jennifer Holliday
