Danielle Deadwyler
Actor
Biography
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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Deadwyler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
As Director
Filmography
Gifted
as Animal Shelter Worker 2017
Carry-On
as Elena Cole 2024
The Harder They Fall
as Cuffee 2021
I Saw the TV Glow
as Brenda 2024
The Leisure Seeker
as Hotel Waitress 2018
The Woman in the Yard
as Ramona 2025
Till
as Mamie Till-Mobley 2022
The Piano Lesson
as Berniece Charles 2024
40 Acres
as Hailey Freeman 2025
Parallel
as Vanessa 2024
The Devil to Pay
as Lemon Cassidy 2020
Jane and Emma
as Jane Manning 2018
A Cross to Bear
as Erica 2012
It's Time
as Karen Phillips 2020
Otis & Zelma
as Zelma Redding TBA
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
as Self 2024
The Saviors
as Kimberley Harrison TBA