Danielle Deadwyler
Actor
- Born
- May 3, 1982 (age 44) · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
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Known for
Acting23
- 2027The Saviors as Kimberley Harrison
- 202540 Acres as Hailey Freeman
- 2025The Woman in the Yard as Ramona
- 2024Carry-On as Elena Cole
- 2024The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision as Self
- 2024The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles
- 2024I Saw the TV Glow as Brenda
- 2024Parallel as Vanessa
- 2022Till as Mamie Till-Mobley
- 2021The Harder They Fall
