Danai Gurira

Known for ActingBorn 1978-02-14 (age 48)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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

INVINCIBLE

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Infinity War

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

What If...?

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist

The Walking Dead

Lie to Me

The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Walking Dead: The Return

Marvel Studios Legends

Black Panther

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast

Talking Dead

The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking

One World: Together at Home

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Law & Order

The Visitor

All Eyez on Me

Ghost Town

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Oscars

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Life on Mars

The Daily Show

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

My Soul to Take

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Mother of George

Restless City

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Off Camera with Sam Jones

3 Backyards

The View

20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda

The Thomas Crown Affair

Matchbox

Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III

Eclipsed

The Fighting Shirley Chisholm

Here Comes the Flood

The Day Will Come When You Won't Be