Danai Gurira
Acting
1978-02-14 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Thomas Crown Affair
2027 · Movie
TheatersMatchbox: The Movie
2026 · Movie
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
2024 · Series
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024 · Movie
Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III
2023 · Movie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023 · Movie
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Movie
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
2022 · Movie
What If...?
2021 · Series
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021 · Movie
INVINCIBLE
2021 · Series
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · Series
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Movie
The Joy Reid Show
2020 · Series
One World: Together at Home
2020 · Movie
Eclipsed
2020 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Movie
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Movie
Black Panther
2018 · Movie
The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking
2017 · Movie
All Eyez on Me
2017 · Movie
The Day Will Come When You Won't Be
2016 · Movie
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2014 · Movie
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · Series
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013 · Movie
Mother of George
2013 · Movie
Restless City
2012 · Movie
Talking Dead
2011 · Series
The Walking Dead
2010 · Series
My Soul to Take
2010 · Movie
3 Backyards
2010 · Movie
Lie to Me
2009 · Series
Life on Mars
2008 · Series
Ghost Town
2008 · Movie
The Visitor
2008 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Here Comes the Flood
Movie
The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Movie