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Danielle Deadwyler
Actor Producer

Danielle Deadwyler

Born May 3, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

8 films Website

Danielle Deadwyler (born May 3, 1982) is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the primetime series The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the series P-Valley (2020), the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022), and the miniseries From Scratch (2022). Deadwyler garnered critical acclaim for starring in the western film The Harder They Fall (2021) and the biopic Till (2022). Her portrayal of Mamie Till in the latter earned her many accolades, garnering the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance and earning BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. C-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards

0 wins, 2 nominations

Filmography 8

40 Acres (2025) movie poster
40 Acres2025
The Woman in the Yard (2025) movie poster
The Woman in the Yard2025
Carry-On (2024) movie poster
Carry-On2024
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) movie poster
I Saw the TV Glow2024
Parallel (2024) movie poster
Parallel2024
The Piano Lesson (2024) movie poster
The Piano Lesson2024
Till (2022) movie poster
Till2022
The Harder They Fall (2021) movie poster
The Harder They Fall2021