Biography
Tracee Ellis Ross first earned widespread attention through her performances as Joan on the series Girlfriends and as Rainbow on ABC’s long-running Black-ish, yet she unveiled her singing voice in the 2020 feature The High Note. The movie’s soundtrack placed her prominently on several numbers, among them “Love Myself,” issued that spring as her inaugural single.
Born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, she is the daughter of Motown legend Diana Ross and music manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Her sisters encompass actress and singer Rhonda Ross as well as television producer Chudney Lane Silberstein; additional siblings from her mother’s 1985 marriage to Arne Næss, Jr. include British singer-songwriter Leona Naess and actor-musician Evan Ross, born Evan Olav Næss.
Ross completed her education at Brown University in 1994 with a theater degree after earlier studies in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Rolle, Switzerland.
Her first screen credit arrived in 1996 with the Long Island-set drama Far Harbor. A breakthrough followed in 2000 when she joined the cast of Diane Keaton’s Hanging Up and began starring in the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, which ran eight seasons from its September premiere.
While that series continued, she appeared in independent films and portrayed a lead in the 2007 television movie Life Support opposite Queen Latifah; the final Girlfriends episode aired February 11, 2008. Later roles included a 2011 recurring stint on CSI and the first twenty-five episodes of BET’s Reed Between the Lines, in which she starred with Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
In September 2014 she joined Anthony Anderson on Black-ish. During her initial seasons she also made guest appearances on Broad City and Portlandia. She hosted the American Music Awards in 2017 and introduced the curl-safe hair-care line Juicy and Joyful the following year.
Ross co-created the Black-ish spinoff Mixed-Ish for ABC in 2019; the series premiered that October with her serving as narrator. That year she was cast as fictional R&B singer Grace Davis in The High Note, which co-starred Dakota Johnson as her assistant. The film reached drive-ins and on-demand platforms in May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and its Republic Records soundtrack contained six tracks performed by Ross, one of which was the debut single “Love Myself.”
Born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, she is the daughter of Motown legend Diana Ross and music manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Her sisters encompass actress and singer Rhonda Ross as well as television producer Chudney Lane Silberstein; additional siblings from her mother’s 1985 marriage to Arne Næss, Jr. include British singer-songwriter Leona Naess and actor-musician Evan Ross, born Evan Olav Næss.
Ross completed her education at Brown University in 1994 with a theater degree after earlier studies in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Rolle, Switzerland.
Her first screen credit arrived in 1996 with the Long Island-set drama Far Harbor. A breakthrough followed in 2000 when she joined the cast of Diane Keaton’s Hanging Up and began starring in the UPN sitcom Girlfriends, which ran eight seasons from its September premiere.
While that series continued, she appeared in independent films and portrayed a lead in the 2007 television movie Life Support opposite Queen Latifah; the final Girlfriends episode aired February 11, 2008. Later roles included a 2011 recurring stint on CSI and the first twenty-five episodes of BET’s Reed Between the Lines, in which she starred with Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
In September 2014 she joined Anthony Anderson on Black-ish. During her initial seasons she also made guest appearances on Broad City and Portlandia. She hosted the American Music Awards in 2017 and introduced the curl-safe hair-care line Juicy and Joyful the following year.
Ross co-created the Black-ish spinoff Mixed-Ish for ABC in 2019; the series premiered that October with her serving as narrator. That year she was cast as fictional R&B singer Grace Davis in The High Note, which co-starred Dakota Johnson as her assistant. The film reached drive-ins and on-demand platforms in May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and its Republic Records soundtrack contained six tracks performed by Ross, one of which was the debut single “Love Myself.”
Singles
