Danielle Deadwyler

Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress who began on Atlanta stages before moving into film and television. Born in Atlanta and raised in Southwest Atlanta, she debuted on screen in A Cross to Bear, a 2012 drama. She later appeared in series such as The Haves and the Have Nots, P-Valley, Station Eleven, and From Scratch, and she produced and starred in the thriller The Devil to Pay (2020). Her breakthrough came with The Harder They Fall (2021), and she drew critical acclaim as Mamie Till in Till (2022), earning nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She also starred in The Piano Lesson (2024), which brought a second SAG nomination, and appeared in I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Parallel (2024), 40 Acres (2024), Carry-On (2024), and The Woman in the Yard (2025). Time included her among its 100 most influential people in 2025.