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Danai Gurira
Grinnell, Iowa, USA
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 o…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2027
The Thomas Crown Affair
Movie
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2026
Matchbox the Movie
Movie Helen
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2024
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
TV show Michonne
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2024
The Walking Dead: The Return
Movie Self / Michonne Hawthorne
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2023
Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III
Movie Richard III
- 2023
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Okoye
- 2022
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2021
What If...?
TV show Okoye (voice)
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2021
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
Movie Self
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2021
INVINCIBLE
TV show Universa (voice)
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2021
Marvel Studios Legends
TV show Okoye (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
The Joy Reid Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2020
One World: Together at Home
Movie Self
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2020
Eclipsed
Movie Writer
More credits
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Avengers: Endgame
Movie Okoye
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2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie Okoye
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2018
Black Panther
Movie Okoye
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2017
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Movie Michonne (voice)
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2017
All Eyez on Me
Movie Afeni Shakur
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2016
The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
Movie Michonne
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2014
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
Movie Fury (voice)
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV show Self
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2013
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Movie Self
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2013
Mother of George
Movie Adenike Olumide Balogen
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2012
Restless City
Movie Sisi
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2011
Talking Dead
TV show Self
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2010
The Walking Dead
TV show Michonne Hawthorne
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2010
My Soul to Take
Movie Jeanne-Baptiste
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2010
3 Backyards
Movie Woman in Blue Dress
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2009
Lie to Me
TV show Michelle Russo
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2008
Life on Mars
TV show Angela
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2008
Ghost Town
Movie Assorted Ghost
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2008
The Visitor
Movie Zainab
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
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2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV show Marei Rosa Rumbidzai
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1997
The View
TV show Self - Guest
