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The child of a Trinidadian father and Tobagonian mother, Stacey Sargeant was born & raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn. She is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts and received her BFA in musical theater from Syracuse University. Stacey can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Netflix film, The Forty Year Old Version, and in the third season of Nat Geo's, Genius: Aretha as Dinah Washington. She most recently guest starred and recurred on CBS’ “Blue Bloods” and “Bull,” respectively. Sargeant received Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel nominations for her work in the NYTimes Critic's Pick, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future at Ars Nova. She is the recipient of the South Korea Daegu International Musical Festival's Best Supporting Actress Award, as well as New York Musical Theatre Festival’s Outstanding Individual Performance Award. In addition, her filmmaking debut, Though I'm Not Perfect, a documentary short about the physical and psychological dangers of the ballet world to young girls, won the Honolulu Film Award for Best Educational Film. Credits include: Film: Come Sunday, Top Five, Obvious Child; TV: Blue Bloods, Bull, Elementary, The Blacklist, Gossip Girl, Glee, Law & Order: SVU; Theater: Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center Theater), Homos, Or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), Two Gentlemen of Verona and the all-female The Taming of the Shrew (Delacorte Theatre), Eclipsed (Public Theater, Curran, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre (workshop)), Our Lady of Kibeho and Big Love (Signature Theatre), Legally Blonde (1st Nat’l Tour).