Sonja Sohn

Sonja Sohn is an American actress and filmmaker who started out as a slam poet and was spotted on stage by Marc Levin, who cast her in his film Slam (1998), a project she also co-wrote and which took the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at Sundance. Born in Fort Benning, Georgia, and raised in Newport News, Virginia, she followed that debut with smaller roles in Shaft (2000) and Bringing Out the Dead (1999) and leads in independent features such as Perfume, G (2002) and The Killing Zone. She became best known as Detective Kima Greggs across five seasons of the HBO drama The Wire, work that earned her a supporting television actress honor at the 2008 Asian Excellence Awards. Later credits include Samantha Baker on Body of Proof, the witch Lenore on The Originals, and Amanda Wagner on Will Trent. She also directed the documentary Baltimore Rising.