Bahni Turpin

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Bahni Turpin (born June 4, 1962 in Pontiac, Michigan) [1] is an American audiobook narrator and stage and screen actor based out of Los Angeles. [2] Her audiobook career includes some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed books in recent years, [3] including The Help and The Hate U Give . [4] She has won 9 Audie Awards, including Audiobook of the Year for Children of Blood and Bone ; [5] [6] 14 Earphone Awards; and 2 Odyssey Awards. Turpin has also earned a place on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators, [7] and in 2016, she was named Audible's Narrator of the Year. [8] In 2018, Audible inducted her into the Narrator Hall of Fame. [8] [9]

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Career

Turpin began her acting career in 1991 with her debut role in the film Daughters of the Dust , [10] the first feature film directed by an African-American woman distributed theatrically in the United States. [11] She has since appeared on television shows such as Criminal Minds.

Turpin is also a member of the Cornerstone Theater Company. [8]

Outside of acting, Turpin has been a long-time yoga instructor. [8]

Reviews

Discussing the power Turpin brings to every role she plays, Audible wrote, "Turpin’s embodiment of characters helps to further pull you into the author’s world and drive home all of the pain and emotion they are carrying." [8] They continued, stating that "her embodiment of characters that span a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds is unparalleled." [8]

Awards and honors

Awards

YearTitleAwardResultRef.
2010 The Help Audie Award for Fiction Winner [7]
Precious Earphones Award Winner [14]
The True Meaning of Smekday  Earphones Award Winner [15] [16]
2011 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audie Award for Nonfiction Winner [17]
The True Meaning of Smekday  Odyssey Award Winner [18]
2012 The Mighty Miss Malone Earphones Award for ChildrenWinner [19]
2013Hold FastListen Up Award for YA/Children'sFinalist [20]
2014Sugar Audie Award for Middle Grade Title Finalist [21]
2015Unstoppable Octobia May Audie Award for Middle Grade Title Finalist [22]
Yellow Crocus Audie Award for Solo Narration – Female Winner [23]
2016 Audible Narrator of the YearWinner [8]
Citizens Creek Audie Award for Fiction Finalist [24]
Jump Back, Paul Audie Award for Middle Grade Title Finalist [25]
The Underground Railroad Publisher Weekly's Narrator of the YearWinner [26]
2017Sister of Mine Audie Award for Fiction Winner [27]
The Underground Railroad Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year Finalist [28] [29]
Audie Award for Best Female Narrator Finalist [29]
Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics Finalist [29]
2018 Audible Narrator Hall of FameWinner [8] [9]
Children of Blood and Bone Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year Winner [5] [6]
Earphones Award Winner [30]
The Hate U Give Odyssey Award Winner [31] [32]
Audie Award for Best Female Narrator Winner [33]
2019 AudioFile Golden Voice NarratorWinner [8]
Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants Earphones Award Winner [34]
Before She Was Harriet Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title Winner [5]
Look Both Ways Earphones Award Winner [35]
Red at the Bone Earphones Award Winner [36]
The Yellow House Earphones Award for Biography & MemoirWinner
Zora and Langston Earphones Award Winner [37]
2020The Book of Lost Friends Earphones Award for Historical FictionWinner
Charlotte's Web   Audie Award for Middle Grade Winner [38]
Charlotte's Web   Earphones Award Winner [39]
Fighting Words Earphones Award for ChildrenWinner
Pew Earphones Award for FictionWinner
Red at the Bone Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics Finalist [40]
2021Fighting Words Odyssey Award Honoree [41] [42]
Pew Audie Award for Literary Fiction or Classics Finalist [43]
2022 Blackout Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections Winner [44]
The Best American Short Stories 2021 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections Finalist [44]
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Audie Award for Fiction
Earphones Award Winner [45]

Best of the Year lists

YearTitleListRef.
2007 New England White Listen Up Award for Mystery [46]
2009 The Help ListenUp Award for Fiction [47]
2010 Precious AudioFile Best of Fiction [7]
2011 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [48] [49]
The True Meaning of Smekday Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [48]
Notable Children's Recordings [50]
2012Bird in a Box AudioFile Best Children's Audiobooks [2]
The Mighty Miss Malone AudioFile Best of 2012: Children's [2]
The Other Half of My HeartNotable Children's Recordings [51]
2013 The Mighty Miss Malone Notable Children's Recordings [52]
2016Jump Back, PaulNotable Children's Recordings [53]
The Sun is Also a Star Publishers Weekly Best Audiobooks of 2016 [26]
'Til the Well Runs DryListen List [54]
The Underground Railroad Publishers Weekly Best Audiobooks of 2016 [26]
2017The Hate U Give Publishers Weekly Best Audiobooks for Children’s/YA [55]
A Kind of Freedom The Washington Post , Best Audiobooks [56]
UnboundNotable Children's Recordings [57]
2018 The Hate U Give Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [58]
Notable Children's Recordings [59]
The Sun is Also a Star Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [58]
2019Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening [2]
American Spy AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense [2]
Before She Was Harriet Notable Children's Recordings [60]
Children of Blood and Bone Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [61]
Notable Children's Recordings [60] [62]
The Darkest ChildThe Listen List [63] [64]
Look Both Ways AudioFile Best Biography & Children & Family Listening [2]
Red at the Bone AudioFile Best Fiction, Poetry & Drama [2]
Zora and Langston AudioFile Best Biography & History [2]
2020Black Enough Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [65]
On the Come Up Notable Children's Recordings [66] [67]
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [68]
Red at the BoneThe Listen List [69]
Roller Girl Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [65]
Spin Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [65]
When the Ground is HardNotable Children's Recordings [66] [67]
When Stars Are Scattered AudioFile Best Children's [2]
Booklist Editors' Choice: Youth Audio [70]
2021145th Street Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71]
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Audio [72]
Fighting Words Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71]
Notable Children's Recordings [73]
From the Desk of Zoe Washington Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71]
Notable Children's Recordings [73]
Look Both Ways Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71]
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71] [74]
This is My America Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [71]
Tiny ImperfectionsThe Listen List [75] [76]
2022 Cinderella Is Dead Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [77]
Sugar Town Queens Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults [77]

Selected narrations

Books narrated by Bahni Turpin
YearTitleAuthor(s)Other Narrator(s)Note
2006 A Piece of Cake Cupcake Brown
2009 The Help Kathryn Stockett, Octavia Spencer and Jenna Lamia
Precious Sapphire First published in 1996
2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Cassandra Campbell
2011 Pigeon English Stephen Kelman
2012 The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul Curtis
The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie Ayana Mathis Adenrele Ojo and Adam Lazarre-White
2014 Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
2015 Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon Robbie Daymond
2016 Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly
If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin First published in 1974
The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon Raymond Lee and Dominic Hoffman
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Graeme Malcolm, Scott Brick, Davina Porter, Dion Graham, and Edoardo Ballerini First published in 1909
2017 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera Michael Crouch and Robbie Daymond
There's Someone Inside Your House Stephanie Perkins
2018 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi
So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
A Spark of Light Jodi Picoult
2019 Children of Virtue and Vengeance Tomi Adeyemi
Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds Jason Reynolds, Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Adenrele Ojo, Kevin R. Free, J.D. Jackson, Guy Lockard, January LaVoy, and David Sadzin
On the Come Up Angie Thomas
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Corduner, and Jorjeana Marie
American Spy Lauren Wilkinson
2020 Cinderella Is Dead Kalynn Bayron
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix
Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi
The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom
2021 Blackout Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles
Chains Laurie Halse Anderson First published in 2008
The Other Black Girl Zakiya Dalila Harris Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, and Heather Alicia Simms
Passing Nella Larsen First published in1929
2022 The Day the Crayons Came Home Drew Daywalt with Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) Barrett Leddy, Jesús E. Martínez, MacLeod Andrews, Ron Butler, Michael Crouch, Taylor Meskimen, Rob Shapiro, Tara Sands, Almarie Guerra, Jamie K. Brown, and Daniel Henning First published in 2015
Recitatif Toni Morrison Zadie Smith First published in 1983

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 Daughters of the Dust Iona Peazant
1992 Rain Without Thunder 'Baby Bomb' Prisoner
Malcolm X Follower at Temple #7
1993 Law & Order Theresa JonesEpisode: Night & Fog
The Saint of Fort Washington Gloria
1994 Getting In Valerie Bookbinder
Rebel Highway Melba MasonEpisiode: Girls in Prison
Girls in Prison Melba
Since Lisa
1995 The Jeff Foxworthy Show NickiEpisode: The Gene Pool
1996 Star Trek: Voyager Ensign Swinn / SwinnEpisodes:
  • Resolutions
  • Tuvix
In the House ZeldaEpisode: The Curse of Hill House
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman CarlyEpisode: Stop the Presses
1997 Women: Stories of Passion 'Angel' ActressEpisode: Grip Till It Hurts
1998 Seinfeld Waitress #1Episode: The Wizard
Chicago Hope Sandra, the Kronk's NeighborEpisode: The Breast and the Brightest
The Pretender Nurse RobertsEpisode: Parole
L. A. Doctors Miss CorelliEpisode: Leap of Faith
1999 Brokedown Palace Jamaican Prisoner
Undressed DaniEpisodes:
  • The Ex-Files
  • If Words Could
  • If Words Could Kill #2
  • The Ex-Files #2
  • Twice a Virgin
2000 Family Law Episode: Playing God
ER Mrs. LattimerEpisode: Loose Ends
Strong Medicine Charlotte GouldEpisode: Dependency
Dharma & Greg MaryEpisode: Love, Honor, and Ole!
2001 NYPD Blue Louise DunnerEpisode: Russellmania
Judging Amy Atty. Carmen DevereEpisode: Imbroglio
The Steve Harvey Show JeanetteEpisode: Stuck on You
2002 Crossroads Ms. Jenson
2003 The Parkers Madame PatriceEpisode: Love Potion #83
Mister Sterling Episode: The Statewide Swing
Crossing Jordan Bahni / BonnyEpisodes:
  • Dead Wives' Club
  • Family Ties
Girlfriends AnitaEpisode: Snoop, There It Is
2004 The Guardian Megan's LawyerEpisode: All Is Mended
Soul Food DanielleEpisode: Take It to the Limit
Pryor OffensesPatty
2004-2005 Cold Case Lindsey DunlayEpisodes:
  • Frank's Best
  • Family
  • Maternal Instincts
2005 Six Feet Under Wolf's GirlfriendEpisode: Dancing for Me
The Comeback Yoga InstructorEpisode: Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover
2006 The Bernie Mac Show KaiEpisode: It's Never as Bad as the First Time
Out of the Woods
What About Brian Baby Dance InstructorEpisode: What About Second Chances
2007 Lincoln Heights VeraEpisodes:
  • Abduction
  • Obsession
2009 Without A Trace ShannonEpisode: Daylight
Mental Louisa KnoxEpisode: Do Over
Buona FortunaSylvia
2012 Pretty Little Liars Hotline CounselorEpisode: A Hot Piece of A
2016 Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Lieutenant Ananda DoshiEpisode: Iqiniso
2017 Chance WatsonEpisode: The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
2018 O. G. Ludlow
Code Black MerylEpisode: Better Angels
2019The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial MarriageNarrator
2020 NCIS Camille WestEpisode: Blood and Treasure
2021 9-1-1: Lone Star JudyEpisode: Dust to Dust
FarrinaFarrinaEpisodes:
  • I Insist
  • Where We Are From
  • Go on and Sit Here
2022If Sharks Disappeared

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