Zainab Jah
Acting · Directing · Writing
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.
Фільмографія
- 2026Watching Mr. Pearson — The Advisor
- 2024Drift — Etweda Kamara
- 2023All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt — Older Mack
- 2023Reunion — Director
- Континенталь: Всесвіт Джона Уіка — Mazie
- East New York — Adama Gueye
- 2022Launch at Paradise — Elsa
- 2022Sherman — Sherman
- 2022Чорна пантера: Ваканда назавжди — Mining Tribe Elder
- 2021False Positive — Grace Singleton
- 2021The Black Disquisition — Sedalia / Mom
- Убивства в одній будівлі — Ndidi Idoko
- 2020Farewell Amor — Esther
- Птах доброго Господа — Harriet Tubman
- 2016Buried Deep — Zainab
- 2015Emily & Tim — Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
- Сліпа зона — President Botros
- Чорний список — Aïssa Joachim
- Елементарно — Vicki
- Батьківщина — Aby Bah
- 2000Dinner Rush — Adrian
- Закон і порядок: Спеціальний корпус — Homeless Person
- Reunion — Writer