She was a recipient of the New York MAC Hanson Award for Cabaret Artist of the Year in 2004.īillings has appeared in an autobiographical show, "S/He and Me". She recorded her second CD, The Story Goes On, in 2003. īillings is also a professional singer who performs in theaters and nightclubs throughout the United States. She performed in a pair of Billy Bermingham- written satirical farces at the Torso Theatre during the 1990s titled Shannen Doherty Shoots a Porno: A Shockumentary and Cannibal Cheerleaders on Crack, starring in the latter. She is a former artistic associate of About Face Theatre. Her one-person autobiographical show toured to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and off Broadway. She has received one Joseph Jefferson Award and five After Dark Awards for her work in Chicago Theatre. She has collaborated on plays with such notable authors as Larry Kramer, Tina Landau, and Jamie Pachino. Most of Billings' professional work has been in Chicago theaters, most notably The Bailiwick Theater, Light Opera Works, Court Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre. She also served as a judge of the Miss Continental pageant in 20. Winning a series of beauty contests, she was named Miss Wisconsin, Miss New York, Miss Chicago, Miss Illinois, and Miss Florida. In the early 1980s, Billings worked under the stage name Shanté at the famed Baton Show Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, where she impersonated Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, and Liza Minnelli. In her early adult life, Billings struggled with homelessness and cocaine and opioid addiction, and for a time participated in sex work. She also appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar and The Roar of the Greasepaint-the Smell of the Crowd. She assisted, working backstage with Carol Burnett and Yul Brynner. Billings' father, Robert Billings, was a music teacher at Los Angeles Harbor College and the musical director for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, which influenced her interest in theater. Early life īillings was born in Illinois into a multiracial family she is of European American, African American, and Native American ancestry. She is also known for portraying the recurring character Davina in the Amazon series Transparent and has played transgender characters in ER, Eli Stone, How to Get Away with Murder, Grey's Anatomy and The Conners. Billings is the second openly transgender woman to have played a transgender character on television, which she did in the 2005 made-for-TV movie Romy and Michele: In the Beginning. Alexandra Scott Billings (born March 28, 1962) is an American actress, teacher, and singer.
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