Currently airing on HBO and HBO Max is Season 4 of The Gilded Age, starring Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Ben Ahlers, Ashlie Atkinson, Dylan Baker, Kelley Curran, Jordan Donica, Jessica Frances Dukes, Amy Forsyth, Jack Gilpin, Simon Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Ben Lamb, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Debra Monk, Hattie Morahan, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, John Douglas Thompson, Taylor Trensch, James Scully, Dennis Haysbert, Maggie Kuntz, Neal Huff, Bonnie Milligan, Jim Gaffigan, Dallas Roberts, Andrew Burnap, Elizabeth Marvel, Adrienne Warren, with Bill Camp and Phylicia Rashad.
Denton currently stars as Peggy Scott in HBO's historical drama series, a breakout role that earned her a Critics' Choice Award nomination and a SAG Award ensemble nomination.
Bertha Russell changed Society at a cost. Now, her family must reckon with the consequences as Agnes van Rhijn seizes an opportunity to regain her position. Meanwhile, Marian forges a new path for herself, and Peggy works to be accepted by her future in-laws. In this new era, you must be careful what you wish for.
Professionally, Peggy has carved out a path as an ambitious journalist and author, writing for publications like the New York Globe and tackling serious social, political, and civil rights issues—including the suffrage movement and confronting racial and gender prejudice.
Denton also starred as Natasha Rostova opposite Josh Groban, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. She also appeared in The Book of Mormon (West End and U.S. national tour), tick, tick... BOOM! at The Kennedy Center, and currently School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. She also starred in Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales talks to Denée Benton on Season 4 of The Gilded Age, her episode on The Drop: A Snowfall Saga and her indie film Dreams in Nightmares, which received a Gotham film award nomination