InStyle’s 2025 Breakthrough List with Denée Benton

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Denée Benton is mining for more success. The Tony-nominated actor-singer has captivated audiences as Peggy in HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age’, starring alongside Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, and Louisa Jacobson. Most recently, Peggy has taken center stage in season 3 with a storyline confronting racial inequality in 1800s New York high society.

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00:00From 4.07 to 8.13, thank you for holding the Brown Swamp girls down.

00:04Hi, I'm Danae Benton and I'm on InStyle's breakthrough list.

00:08Theater at a summer camp when I was in high school, but it was for like really rich five-year-olds

00:13and their favorite foods were like sushi and hummus and I don't think I knew what hummus

00:17was yet, but they put me on.

00:20I feel like I've been performing since I was like one, like my mom said I would just be

00:23like dancing around the living room, but it really sealed the deal for me was Brandy Whitney

00:27Cinderella. I have to stand on it forever. I broke the VCR tape that we like did the TV

00:33for home movie recording and I would just watch it, watch it, watch it and then the tape melted.

00:38So it really locked it in and I've been in my princess bag ever since.

00:43I would say the artist that I'm really excited about right now that I think is about to have

00:46a breakthrough moment is this artist called Alameda. She's just like the indie alternative

00:53girl of my dream. She's a music artist that I feel like I needed to listen to growing up.

00:58I'm just really into it right now. Who should play me in my biopic is my fellow Florida swamp

01:03queen, Dochi. Mostly because I just want an excuse to be her friend. Dochi, I love you.

01:11From 407 to 813, thank you for holding the brown swamp girls down and let's get some boiled

01:16peanuts someday.

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