Jayme Lawson
Biography
Jayme Lawson is an American actress who grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and trained at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts before studying at Juilliard, where she graduated in 2019. After graduating, she appeared off-Broadway in a revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls, and her performance was singled out. Her film debut came in Farewell Amor (2020) as Sylvia, and she went on to play the Gotham mayoral candidate Bella Reál in The Batman (2022), a role she revisited in the HBO series The Penguin. Other credits include Till (2022), The Woman King (2022), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023) and The First Lady, in which she played a young Michelle Obama. In 2025 she co-starred in Sinners, earning a Gotham Independent Film Awards ensemble tribute, and appeared in The Running Man.
29years old
Turns 30 on September 19in 313 days
- Born Washington, D.C.
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
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- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 5 years2020 to 2025
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First role
After graduating from Juilliard in May 2019, Lawson appeared in an off-Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and her performance was considered a standout.
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Jayme Lawson shares two films with Marcus Scribner, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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