
Danielle Deadwyler
Department: Acting
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 Piano Lesson
2024

Parallel
2024

Carry-On
2024

I Saw the TV Glow
2024

The Woman in the Yard
2025

The Leisure Seeker
2018

40 Acres
2025

A Cross to Bear
2012

Gifted
2017

Jane and Emma
2018

The Devil to Pay
2020

The Harder They Fall
2021

Till
2022

Otis & Zelma
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The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
2024

The Saviors
2026

It's Time
2020

The Street
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The Chaperones
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Sweet, Sweet Country
2013

Black Dispatch
2019

P-Valley
2020

Station Eleven
2021

MacGyver
2016

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Greenleaf
2016

Tamron Hall
2019

The View
1997

From Scratch
2022

Watchmen
2019

Paradise Lost
2020

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Sherri
2022

Rooster
2026

The Bear
2022