Natalie Paul

Natalie Paul is an American actress from Brooklyn who trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She began her screen career with her first series regular role as Doreen Henderson, a community organizer, in Show Me a Hero, a housing drama, and she appeared in such series as Smash, Power, and later the second season of The Sinner. Her first film role was the female lead in Crown Heights (2017), which won the audience award at Sundance and brought her a Black Reel Award for outstanding actress plus an NAACP Image Award nomination. After that she played newspaper reporter Sandra Washington in The Deuce, took a supporting role in Random Acts of Flyness, and starred as Karen Minty in You. Paul has also moved into writing and directing, with short films including Everything Absolutely and Sweet Tea.