Zainab Jah
Zainab Jah was raised in Sierra Leone and returned to London at the age of ten. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance, she toured as a modern dancer, eventually trading dance for acting. She appeared in numerous plays, winning rave reviews for shows both on and off-Broadway including the Tony-nominated Eclipsed, and won Best Actress from the Philadelphia Critic’s Circle for Hamlet at the Wilma Theatre. Her work in film & TV includes anti-corruption minister Aminata Sissoko in the second season of Deep State, Aby Bah in Homeland, and Harriet Tubman in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird. Other work includes appearances on Blindspot, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the EPIX series Deep State, and the Sundance hit Farewell Amor. Most recently, she was featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She can currently be seen in the John Wick spin-off mini-series The Continental.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Watching Mr. Pearson as The Advisor
- 2024 · Drift as Etweda Kamara
- 2023 · All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt as Older Mack
- 2023 · The Continental: From the World of John Wick as Mazie
- 2022 · Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Mining Tribe Elder
- 2022 · East New York as Adama Gueye
- 2022 · Launch at Paradise as Elsa
- 2022 · Sherman as Sherman
- 2021 · The Black Disquisition as Sedalia / Mom
- 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Ndidi Idoko
- 2021 · False Positive as Grace Singleton
- 2020 · The Good Lord Bird as Harriet Tubman
- 2020 · Farewell Amor as Esther
- 2016 · Buried Deep as Zainab
- 2015 · Blindspot as President Botros
- 2015 · Emily & Tim as Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Aïssa Joachim
- 2012 · Elementary as Vicki
- 2011 · Homeland as Aby Bah
- 2000 · Dinner Rush as Adrian
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Homeless Person