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Kimiko Glenn

American actress (born 1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Kimiko Glenn is an American actress and singer, best known in a live action role for portraying Brook Soso in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2014–2019), for which she received three ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards. She also originated the role of Dawn Pinkett in the Broadway musical Waitress in 2016. Glenn concurrently acted in the thriller film Nerve (2016) and voiced Peni Parker in the animated Spider-Verse trilogy (2018–present). She has also voiced roles in a number of other animated media, including the film Over the Moon (2020) and television projects such as DuckTales (2017–2021), Voltron: Legendary Defender (2017–2018), Summer Camp Island (2018–2023), Kiff (2023–present), Hazbin Hotel (2024–present), and Among Us (2026).

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“Kimiko Glenn” enters the record as american actress (born 1989). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kimiko, Glenn and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2019, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kimiko, Glenn and American.
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Why this record matters

“Kimiko Glenn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kimiko, Glenn and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2019, 2016 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kimiko Glenn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.