Zainab Jah Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Zainab Jah

Zainab Jah

Acting

Biography

Zainab Jah was raised in Sierra Leone and returned to London at the age of ten. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance, she toured as a modern dancer, eventually trading dance for acting. She appeared in numerous plays, winning rave reviews for shows both on and off-Broadway including the Tony-nominated Eclipsed, and won Best Actress from the Philadelphia Critic’s Circle for Hamlet at the Wilma Theatre. Her work in film & TV includes anti-corruption minister Aminata Sissoko in the second season of Deep State, Aby Bah in Homeland, and Harriet Tubman in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird. Other work includes appearances on Blindspot, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the EPIX series Deep State, and the Sundance hit Farewell Amor. Most recently, she was featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She can currently be seen in the John Wick spin-off mini-series The Continental.

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Black Disquisition movie poster
MOVIE

The Black Disquisition

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The Black Disquisition
Sedalia / Mom
Dinner Rush movie poster
MOVIE

Dinner Rush

7.0(0.1K)
Dinner Rush
Adrian
Launch at Paradise movie poster
MOVIE

Launch at Paradise

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Launch at Paradise
Elsa
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie poster
MOVIE

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

7.0(7.5K)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Mining Tribe Elder
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt movie poster
MOVIE

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

5.8(0.0K)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Older Mack
Drift movie poster
MOVIE

Drift

6.3(0.0K)
Drift
Etweda Kamara
Buried DeepMOVIE
MOVIE

Buried Deep

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Buried Deep
Zainab
False Positive movie poster
MOVIE

False Positive

5.6(0.2K)
False Positive
Grace Singleton
Farewell Amor movie poster
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Farewell Amor

6.8(0.0K)
Farewell Amor
Esther
Emily & Tim movie poster
MOVIE

Emily & Tim

5.6(0.0K)
Emily & Tim
Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')

Production

Gallery

Zainab Jah portrait