Zainab Jah

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 offBroadway including the Tonynominated Eclipsed and won Best Actress from the Philadelphia Critics Circle for Hamlet at the Wilma Theatre Her work in film TV includes anticorruption minister Aminata Sissoko in the second season of Deep State Aby Bah in Homeland and Harriet Tubman in Showtimes 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 spinoff miniseries The Continental