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.
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Watching Mr. Pearson | The Advisor | 2026-04-09 |
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Drift | Etweda Kamara | 2024-02-09 |
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | Older Mack | 2023-11-03 |
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Sherman | Sherman | 2022-04-24 |
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Mining Tribe Elder | 2022-11-09 |
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Launch at Paradise | Elsa | 2022-06-03 |
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False Positive | Grace Singleton | 2021-06-18 |
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The Black Disquisition | Sedalia / Mom | 2021-10-01 |
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Farewell Amor | Esther | 2020-01-25 |
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Buried Deep | Zainab | 2016-01-19 |
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Emily & Tim | Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing') | 2015-08-29 |
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Dinner Rush | Adrian | 2000-09-01 |
