Actor

Danai Gurira

Contemporaryb. 1978DramaDocumentaryAdventureAction

Force of Nature

Also wrote 1 screenplay ↗

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Known For

23 acting credits

as Okoye

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as Okoye

2018

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as Okoye

2019

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Filmography

2027The Thomas Crown Affair 2026MatchboxHelen 2024The Walking Dead: The ReturnSelf / Michonne Hawthorne7.3 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverSelf6.3 2023Shakespeare in the Park: Richard IIIRichard III 202220/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of WakandaSelf3.7 2022

About

Danai Jekesai Gurira (/dəˈnaɪ ɡʊˈrɪərə/; born February 14, 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress, playwright, and activist. She is best known for her starring roles as Michonne on the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2012–2020, 2022) and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024), and as Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, including Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Gurira is the writer of the Broadway play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Gurira received two nominations for The People's Choice Awards in 2019 and 2020 for her role on The Walking Dead, and she was also nominated for a 2024 Black Reel Television award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for her work on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danai Gurira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

As Screenwriter

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2020Eclipsed

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