Danielle Deadwyler

Danielle Deadwyler

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayMay 3, 1982
BiographyDanielle Deadwyler (born May 3, 1982) is an American actress. She earned critical acclaim for her roles in The Harder They Fall (2021), as Mamie Till in Till (2022), and as a conflicted mother in The Piano Lesson (2024). Deadwyler received British Academy Film Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Till, and a second SAG nomination for The Piano Lesson.

Deadwyler began her career as a theatre actress in Atlanta, Georgia. Deadwyler then transitioned to film and television roles and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the primetime soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the drama series P-Valley (2020), and the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022) and From Scratch (2022). In 2025, Time magazine named Deadwyler one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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as Zora Wheeler
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as Dominique Green

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