Denise Woods(II)
- Additional Crew
- Actress
- Producer
Denise Woods' work as a dialect coach include British actor Idris Elba,
Academy-Award nominated actors Will Smith in "Ali" and Ken Watanabe in
"The Last Samurai." She coached Audra McDonald on her fourth Tony Award
Winning Broadway performance in "Gershwin's Porgy and Bess" and was
most recently Zoe Saldana's dialect coach in the upcoming feature film
based on the life of Nina Simone. Ms. Woods has worked as a vocal coach
with NBC Nightly News, CNBC, Bloomberg News, The Today Show, CNN,
Inside Edition, KTLA News, and the TV Guide Channel. Additional clients
of hers include Phylicia Rashad, Amber Heard, Kellan Lutz, Anthony
Mackie, Ellen Burstyn, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Soledad O'Brien, Morris
Chestnut, Queen Latifah, Taye Diggs, Paul Rodriguez, Ray Liotta,
Porscia Derossi, Rachel Weisz, Mekhi Phifer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeffery
Wright and Mike Myers. She is a graduate and former faculty member of
The Juilliard School and a long time faculty member of California
Institute of the Arts.
