Danielle Deadwyler

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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The View

FBI: Most Wanted

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Bear

Sherri

MacGyver

All Movies (22)

• The Saviors2026 · as Kimberley Harrison
• 40 Acres2025 · as Hailey Freeman
• The Woman in the Yard2025 · as Ramona
• Carry-On2024 · as Elena Cole
• The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision2024 · as Self
• The Piano Lesson2024 · as Berniece Charles
• I Saw the TV Glow2024 · as Brenda
• Parallel2024 · as Vanessa
• Till2022 · as Mamie Till-Mobley
• The Harder They Fall2021 · as Cuffee
• The Devil to Pay2020 · as Lemon Cassidy
• It's Time2020 · as Karen Phillips
• Black Dispatch2019 · as Sable
• Jane and Emma2018 · as Jane Manning
• The Leisure Seeker2018 · as Hotel Waitress
• Gifted2017 · as Animal Shelter Worker
• The Youth2015 · as Hoda
• Sweet, Sweet Country2013 · as Ndizeye
• A Cross to Bear2012 · as Erica
• Otis & Zelma— · as Zelma Redding
• The Street— · as Lutie Johnson
• The Chaperones—

All TV Shows (16)

• Rooster2026 · as Dylan Shepard
• From Scratch2022 · as Zora Wheeler
• Sherri2022 · as Self - Guest
• The Bear2022 · as Chantel
• Station Eleven2021 · as Miranda Carroll
• P-Valley2020 · as Yoli
• Paradise Lost2020 · as Nicque Green
• FBI: Most Wanted2020 · as Cleo Wilkens
• Watchmen2019 · as June
• Tamron Hall2019 · as Self - Guest
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• MacGyver2016 · as Brunette Agent
• Greenleaf2016 · as Stacy
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest