People
Danai Gurira
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
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.
Notable films
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Avengers: Endgame
As Okoye
Avengers: Infinity War
As Okoye
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
As Okoye
Black Panther
As Okoye
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
As Michonne
Eyes of Wakanda
As Okoye (Voice)
My Soul to Take
As Jeanne-Baptiste
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
As Self
Chains
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Acted
Eyes of Wakanda
2025 · Okoye (Voice)
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
2024 · Michonne
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023 · Self
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Okoye
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Okoye
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Okoye
Black Panther
2018 · Okoye
My Soul to Take
2010 · Jeanne-Baptiste