Danielle Deadwyler
Danielle Deadwyler (born May 3, 1982) is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the primetime series The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the series P-Valley (2020), the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022), and the miniseries From Scratch (2022). Deadwyler garnered critical acclaim for starring in the western film The Harder They Fall (2021) and the biopic Till (2022). Her portrayal of Mamie Till in the latter earned her many accolades, garnering the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance and earning BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Deadwyler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2025 · The Woman in the Yard as
- 2024 · Carry-On as Elena Cole
- 2024 · The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision as Self
- 2024 · The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles
- 2024 · 40 Acres as Hailey Freeman
- 2024 · I Saw the TV Glow as Brenda
- 2024 · Parallel as Vanessa
- 2022 · From Scratch as Zora Wheeler
- 2022 · Till as Mamie Till-Mobley
- 2021 · Station Eleven as Miranda Carroll
- 2021 · The Harder They Fall as Cuffee
- 2020 · The Devil to Pay as Lemon Cassidy
- 2020 · P-Valley as Yoli
- 2020 · Paradise Lost as Nicque Green
- 2019 · Watchmen as June
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2018 · Jane and Emma as Jane Manning
- 2018 · The Leisure Seeker as Hotel Waitress
- 2017 · Gifted as Animal Shelter Worker
- 2016 · MacGyver as Brunette Agent
- 2016 · Greenleaf as Stacy
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2012 · A Cross to Bear as Erica
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- Future · The Saviors as
- Future · Otis & Zelma as Zelma Redding