Zainab Jah
Actor
Zainab Jah was raised in Sierra Leone and returned to London at the age of ten. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance, she toured as a modern dancer, eventually trading dance for acting. She appeared in numerous plays, winning rave reviews for shows both on and off-Broadway including the Tony-nominated Eclipsed, and won Best Actress from the Philadelphia Critic’s Circle for Hamlet at the Wilma Theatre. Her work in film & TV includes anti-corruption minister Aminata Sissoko in the second season of Deep State, Aby Bah in Homeland, and Harriet Tubman in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird. Other work includes appearances on Blindspot, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the EPIX series Deep State, and the Sundance hit Farewell Amor. Most recently, she was featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She can currently be seen in the John Wick spin-off mini-series The Continental.
Filmography
Watching Mr. Pearson
The Advisor
Drift
Etweda Kamara
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Older Mack
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Mazie
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Mining Tribe Elder
East New York
Adama Gueye
Launch at Paradise
Elsa
The Black Disquisition
Sedalia / Mom
Only Murders in the Building
Ndidi Idoko
False Positive
Grace Singleton
The Good Lord Bird
Harriet Tubman
Farewell Amor
Esther
Blindspot
President Botros
Emily & Tim
Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
The Blacklist
Aïssa Joachim
Elementary
Vicki
Homeland
Aby Bah
Dinner Rush
Adrian
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Homeless Person