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.
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- The View (1997) as Self - Guest
- The Bear (2022) as Chantel
- FBI: Most Wanted (2020) as Cleo Wilkens
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- MacGyver (2016) as Brunette Agent
- Sherri (2022) as Self - Guest
- Tamron Hall (2019) as Self - Guest
- P-Valley (2020) as Yoli
- Rooster (2026) as Dylan Shepard
- Watchmen (2019) as June
- Greenleaf (2016) as Stacy
- Gifted (2017) as Animal Shelter Worker
- Station Eleven (2021) as Miranda Carroll
- Carry-On (2024) as Elena Cole
- I Saw the TV Glow (2024) as Brenda
- From Scratch (2022) as Zora Wheeler
- The Woman in the Yard (2025) as Ramona
- 40 Acres (2025) as Hailey Freeman
- Paradise Lost (2020) as Nicque Green
- The Harder They Fall (2021) as Cuffee
- The Piano Lesson (2024) as Berniece Charles
- Till (2022) as Mamie Till-Mobley