Shahadi Wright Joseph
Biography
Shahadi Wright Joseph is an American actress, singer, and dancer from Brooklyn, New York, who has performed since childhood. Her first major role came at age nine as young Nala in the Broadway staging of The Lion King. She later played Madison in Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock and Little Inez Stubbs in the 2016 NBC special Hairspray Live! (2016), which received good reviews. In 2018 she took the lead as Holiday in the podcast Six Minutes. She voiced young Nala again in Jon Favreau's The Lion King (2019) and appeared in Jordan Peele's horror film Us (2019) as Zora and Umbrae. Us won critical praise and became a box office success, and her work earned nominations for a Saturn Award and for a Critics' Choice Movie Award. She also starred as Ruby Lee Emory in Them, an Amazon Prime Video horror drama series released in April 2021.
21years old
Turns 22 on April 29in 199 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years2016 to 2019
Every film, newest first
- 2019The Lion KingIMDb rating 6.8
- 2019UsIMDb rating 6.8
- 2016Hairspray Live!IMDb rating 7.0
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First role
Shahadi Wright Joseph's first major acting role was young Nala in the Broadway musical adaptation of The Lion King, a part she landed at nine years old.
Early training
For a school play audition in third grade, Shahadi Wright Joseph used Lupita Nyong'o's Academy Award acceptance speech as her material.
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Worked with
Shahadi Wright Joseph shares two films with Billy Eichner, 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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Billy Eichner's page
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Martin Short's page
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All films by Jordan Peele
All films by Jon Favreau
Alex RudzinskiDirector, 1 film, 2016
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