‘Two Strangers’ star Christiani Pitts is up for best leading actress in a musical at Sunday’s Tony Awards.
Christiani Pitts (left) and Sam Tutty appear during a performance of “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” in New York on Oct. 31, 2025. (Matthew Murphy/AP)
Christiani Pitts began her acting career at age 5 as a background cow in a Nativity scene at her local Decatur church. She still recalls the epiphany she had as she gazed out into the audience.
“Nobody was looking at me,” she said in a Zoom interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from her home in New York City. “I was the third cow on the left. But I felt like a star! I told my mom afterward that I wanted to be on Disney or Nickelodeon.”
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Christiani Pitts attends the 79th annual Tony Awards Meet the Nominees press event at the Sofitel New York on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.
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