Biography

She is the daughter of actress Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster/retired pro football player Ahmad Rashad, who divorced in February 2001.

She is the niece of Debbie Allen.

Rashad has received four Tony Award nominations for her work on Broadway in the plays Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, A Doll's House, Part 2, and Saint Joan. She is the youngest performer to have received that many nominations.

She is named after her paternal grandmother, Condola Moore.

Condola was born three days before her parents' first wedding anniversary.

I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."