Danai Gurira
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.
Filmography (43 titles)
The Thomas Crown Affair
2027
MovieMatchbox
Helen · 2026
8.0ShowThe Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Michonne · 2024
7.4MovieThe Walking Dead: The Return
Self / Michonne Hawthorne · 2024
MovieShakespeare in the Park: Richard III
Richard III · 2023
6.3MovieMarvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Self · 2023
7.0MovieBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever
Okoye · 2022
4.3Movie20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
Self · 2022
8.0ShowWhat If...?
Okoye (voice) · 2021
8.0MovieChadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
Self · 2021
8.6ShowINVINCIBLE
Universa (voice) · 2021
7.4ShowMarvel Studios Legends
Okoye (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2021
8.1MovieChadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self (archive footage) · 2020
7.1MovieOne World: Together at Home
Self · 2020
6.3ShowThe Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest · 2019
8.2MovieAvengers: Endgame
Okoye · 2019
8.2MovieAvengers: Infinity War
Okoye · 2018
7.4MovieBlack Panther
Okoye · 2018
7.0MovieThe Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
Michonne (voice) · 2017
6.7MovieAll Eyez on Me
Afeni Shakur · 2017
The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
Michonne · 2016
6.2ShowClose Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 2015
7.4MovieTinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
Fury (voice) · 2014
5.0ShowOff Camera with Sam Jones
Self · 2014
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
Self · 2013
5.3MovieMother of George
Adenike Olumide Balogen · 2013
5.3MovieRestless City
Sisi · 2012
7.2ShowTalking Dead
Self · 2011
8.1ShowThe Walking Dead
Michonne Hawthorne · 2010
5.5MovieMy Soul to Take
Jeanne-Baptiste · 2010