Born 1982 (age 44) · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Appears in 38 titles

Danielle Deadwyler (born May 3, 1982) is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the primetime series The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the series P-Valley (2020), the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022), and the miniseries From Scratch (2022). Deadwyler garnered critical acclaim for starring in the western film The Harder They Fall (2021) and the biopic Till (2022). Her portrayal of Mamie Till in the latter earned her many accolades, garnering the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance and earning BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Deadwyler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Gifted
8.0
Gifted
2017
as Animal Shelter Worker
Carry-On
6.9
Carry-On
2024
as Elena Cole
The Harder They Fall
6.6
The Harder They Fall
2021
as Cuffee
I Saw the TV Glow
6.1
I Saw the TV Glow
2024
as Brenda
The Leisure Seeker
7.1
The Leisure Seeker
2018
as Hotel Waitress
The Woman in the Yard
5.7
The Woman in the Yard
2025
as Ramona
Till
7.3
Till
2022
as Mamie Till-Mobley
40 Acres
6.7
40 Acres
2025
as Hailey Freeman
The Piano Lesson
5.9
The Piano Lesson
2024
as Berniece Charles
Parallel
6.4
Parallel
2024
as Vanessa
The Devil to Pay
6.4
The Devil to Pay
2020
as Lemon Cassidy
Jane and Emma
6.9
Jane and Emma
2018
as Jane Manning
A Cross to Bear
9.3
A Cross to Bear
2012
as Erica
It's Time
2.0
It's Time
2020
as Karen Phillips
Sweet, Sweet Country
7.0
Sweet, Sweet Country
2013
as Ndizeye
Otis & Zelma
as Zelma Redding
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
The Saviors
The Saviors
2026
as Kimberley Harrison
The Street
as Lutie Johnson
The Chaperones
The Chaperones