Danai Gurira
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 14 February 1978 · 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.
Known for
Acting 29
- 2027The Thomas Crown Affair
- 2026Matchbox the Movie as Helen
- 2026Here Comes the Flood
- 2026The Fighting Shirley Chisholm as Shirley Chisholm
- 2026Avengers Endgame: Encore as Okoye
- 2026Too Far Gone as Michonne
- 2025The Infinity Saga as Okoye
- 2024The Walking Dead: The Return as Self / Michonne Hawthorne
- 2023Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III as Richard III
- 2023Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Self
- 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Okoye
- 202220/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda as Self
- 2021Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2020Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self (archive footage)
- 2020One World: Together at Home as Self
- 2019Avengers: Endgame as Okoye
- 2018Avengers: Infinity War as Okoye
- 2018Black Panther as Okoye
- 2017The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking as Michonne (voice)
- 2017All Eyez on Me as Afeni Shakur
- 2016The Day Will Come When You Won't Be as Michonne
- 2014Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast as Fury (voice)
- 2013The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead as Self
- 2013Mother of George as Adenike Olumide Balogen
- 2012Restless City as Sisi
- 2010My Soul to Take as Jeanne-Baptiste
- 20103 Backyards as Woman in Blue Dress
- 2008Ghost Town as Assorted Ghost
- 2008The Visitor as Zainab
Writing 1
- 2020Eclipsed · writer