Emayatzy Corinealdi

Emayatzy Corinealdi is an American actress who was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and raised in a military family, studying acting at the William Esper Studio in New York City and Playhouse West before moving into film and television. She built an early career in independent and short films, with a recurring role on The Young and the Restless and an appearance in the Hallmark film The Nanny Express (2009), then took the lead in Ava DuVernay's drama Middle of Nowhere (2012). That performance earned her a Gotham Independent Film Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best female lead. She went on to star in The Invitation (2015), Miles Ahead (2016), as Miles Davis's wife Frances Taylor Davis, and Beats (2019). On television she played Belle in the 2016 Roots remake and appeared in Hand of God, Ballers, The Red Line and, from 2022, the Hulu legal drama Reasonable Doubt.