Samira Wiley

Samira Wiley is an American actress who trained in theater performance at the Juilliard School in New York City and graduated in 2010, then worked mainly on stage early on, including a 2011 Public Theater production of Love's Labour's Lost. Her schooling also took her to Washington, D.C.'s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the city where she was raised. Her first major screen part came in the comedy The Sitter (2011), followed by the independent crime film Rob the Mob (2014). On Orange Is the New Black she played Poussey Washington and was made a series regular by the third season. She later took the role of Moira in the Hulu drama The Handmaid's Tale, winning an Emmy for guest actress after a supporting actress nomination. Her films include Nerve (2016), Detroit (2017), Social Animals (2018) and 37 (2016), and her voice work includes the Netflix documentary Night on Earth (2020).