Zainab Jah

Known for Acting

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Watching Mr. Pearson

Only Murders in the Building

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Blacklist

Elementary

Homeland

The Continental: From the World of John Wick

Blindspot

East New York

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Dinner Rush

Farewell Amor

The Good Lord Bird

Drift

False Positive

Emily & Tim

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

Reunion

Launch at Paradise

Sherman

The Black Disquisition

Buried Deep

Reunion