Amirah Vann
Biography
Amirah Vann is an American actress and singer who spent years performing in Off-Broadway theater before she moved into film and television. Born in Queens, New York, she studied at Fordham University and later earned a master's degree from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. After small film parts, including Tracers (2015), she gained notice as Ernestine in the WGN America drama Underground, a role that brought her an NAACP Image Award nomination for supporting actress. She went on to play the lawyer Tegan Price on the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder, first in a recurring part and then as a regular. Her later credits include Miss Virginia, A Jazzman's Blues (2022), where she played the singer Hattie Mae, and Shirley (2024), in which she portrayed Diahann Carroll.
46years old
Turns 47 on June 24in 254 days
- Born Queens
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as Amirah Charline Vann
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 9 years2015 to 2024
Every film, newest first
- 2024ShirleyIMDb rating 6.3
- 2022A Jazzman's BluesIMDb rating 6.8
- 2015TracersIMDb rating 5.6
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Big break
Vann had smaller parts in movies such as And So It Goes and Tracers. Her breakthrough came in 2016, playing Ernestine, the Macon plantation's head house slave, in the WGN America drama series Underground.
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Films together
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Daniel BenmayorDirector, 1 film, 2015
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John RidleyDirector, 1 film, 2024
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