Taral Hicks Movies and Career Information

Taral Hicks (born September 21, 1974 in The Bronx, New York) is an actress, musician and sister of singer D'Atra Hicks. Hicks graduated in 1993 from Grace Dodge Vocational High School in Bronx, New York. Hicks began her film career with a role alongside Robert De Niro in the 1993 film A Bronx Tale. Her subsequent film roles were small, 1995's Just Cause with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne, 1996's Educating Matt Waters and The Preacher's Wife with Whitney Houston. It wasn't until 1997 in the HBO original film Subway Stories that audiences began to take notice. As the "Woman with Flowers" who sang to her mother on the payphone, her performance was widely deemed to be one of the best in the film. In 1997, Hicks signed a deal with Motown Records and released an album entitled This Time. The single Ooh, Ooh Baby, produced and written by, and featuring Missy Elliott, charted on the Billboard R&B singles chart. However, the lead single intended to debut her singing career was Distant Lover, an uptempo track produced by Teddy Riley. The album didn't take off until the second single, Silly, a remake of the classic R&B hit by Deniece Williams was released. Featuring a black-and-white