Zainab Jah

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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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2026-04-09	Watching Mr. Pearson	The Advisor
	2024-02-09	Drift	Etweda Kamara
	2023-11-03	All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt	Older Mack
	2022-11-09	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Mining Tribe Elder
	2022-06-03	Launch at Paradise	Elsa
	2022-04-24	Sherman	Sherman
	2021-10-01	The Black Disquisition	Sedalia / Mom
	2021-06-18	False Positive	Grace Singleton
	2020-01-25	Farewell Amor	Esther
	2016-01-19	Buried Deep	Zainab
	2015-08-29	Emily & Tim	Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
	2000-09-01	Dinner Rush	Adrian