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Originally from the West African coastal country of Liberia, Togba Norris and his family immigrated to the US as political refugees when he was 5 years old, and was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Togba began his professional career as a Minneapolis stage actor and Hip Hop dancer, working as an actor with Youth Performance Company, Theatre in the Round Players, Mixed Blood Theatre, Illusion Theatre, and The Guthrie Theatre mainstage and lab. His introduction to The Guthrie was under the direction of Broadway, Tony, and international award winning theatre directors Bartlett Sher, Joe Dowling, and Sari Ketter, and he's also played a principal role in Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisun's production of "Many Colors Make the Thunder-King'' shortly after graduating high school, Togba's stage work landed him on a short list of young actors to work with in Minnesota.

Togba's dedication, ferocity and talent have not been regimented to just the stage. He has appeared in numerous regional and national commercials, industrial videos, and print ads for Best Buy, Coca-Cola, Great Clips, Houlihan's Restaurant chains, Old Chicago Restaurant, The Learning Company, Wilsons Leather, Dayton Hudson/ Marshall Field's, Target, Mervyn's, Wells Fargo, and Northwest Airlines.

He relocated to LA in 2003 and NYC in 2018, has continued pursuing theatre with the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena under the direction of Darin Anthony and with Noah Wylie's Blank Theatre Company in Hollywood.

Togba has since branched into Indy filmmaking and Episodic TV with a growing resume of credits including season 1, episode 3  of "Pokerface", written and directed by creators Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne, alongside Tim Russ, Luis Guzman, Cherry Jones, and Nick Nolte. Airing on NBC's streaming network Peacock.
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Togba continues to work regularly between LA, NYC, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto, and the Twin Cities.