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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…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Watching Mr. Pearson
Movie The Advisor
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2024
Drift
Movie Etweda Kamara
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2023
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Movie Older Mack
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2023
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
TV show Mazie
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2023
Reunion
Movie Director
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Mining Tribe Elder
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2022
East New York
TV show Adama Gueye
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2022
Launch at Paradise
Movie Elsa
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2022
Sherman
Movie Sherman
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2021
The Black Disquisition
Movie Sedalia / Mom
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2021
Only Murders in the Building
TV show Ndidi Idoko
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2021
False Positive
Movie Grace Singleton
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2020
The Good Lord Bird
TV show Harriet Tubman
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2020
Farewell Amor
Movie Esther
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2016
Buried Deep
Movie Zainab
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2015
Blindspot
TV show President Botros
More credits
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2015
Emily & Tim
Movie Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
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2013
The Blacklist
TV show Aïssa Joachim
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2012
Elementary
TV show Vicki
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2011
Homeland
TV show Aby Bah
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2000
Dinner Rush
Movie Adrian
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Homeless Person
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Reunion
Movie Writer
