She won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, appearing on Broadway opposite Denzel Washington in "A Raisin in the Sun". She later said that one of the best things about her Broadway debut was that she got to say she was "Denzel Washington's wife".
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't
mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the
possibility of something extraordinary happening.