Danai Gurira

Zimbabwean-American actress

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2025 Nominated for Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
2025 Gurira was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live and won the Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation
2025 Nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series and won for Best Television Presentation for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
2025 Nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series and won for Best Television Presentation for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
2025 Nominated for Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
February 2024 The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premiered, consisting of six episodes, with Gurira receiving a Black Reel Television award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.
February 2024 The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premiered, consisting of six episodes, with Gurira receiving a Black Reel Television award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.
2023 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023 Performs in Shakespeare's 'Richard III' for Great Performances, Season 50
2023 Danai Gurira appeared as a playable character (DLC) in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, providing her voice and likeness as Michonne
2023 Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2023 Performs in Shakespeare's 'Richard III' for Great Performances, Season 50
2023 Danai Gurira appeared as a playable character (DLC) in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, providing her voice and likeness as Michonne
May 2023 Gurira played Richard III in a Shakespeare in the Park production.
May 2023 Played Richard III in a Shakespeare in the Park production.
May 2023 Gurira played Richard III in a Shakespeare in the Park production.
2022 Danai Gurira performs as Richard III in Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater
2022 Reprises her role as Michonne in a special appearance in The Walking Dead and appears in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Okoye.
2022 Hosted the Global Citizen Festival in Ghana, continuing her work as a Global Citizen ambassador.
2022 Returned as Okoye in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', following the passing of Chadwick Boseman
2022 Danai Gurira performs as Richard III in Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater
2022 Returned as Okoye in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', following the passing of Chadwick Boseman
2022 Hosted the Global Citizen Festival in Ghana, continuing her work as a Global Citizen ambassador.
2022 Reprises her role as Michonne in a special appearance in The Walking Dead and appears in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Okoye.
July 2022 Announced a spin-off mini-series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live at San Diego Comic-Con, which she co-created, produced, and wrote the fourth episode for.
July 2022 Announced a spin-off mini-series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live at San Diego Comic-Con, which she co-created, produced, and wrote the fourth episode for.
2021 Voices Okoye in Marvel's animated series 'What If...?', appearing in 3 episodes
2021 Voices Okoye in Marvel's animated series 'What If...?', appearing in 3 episodes
2020 Danai Gurira's likeness was featured in the video game Fortnite Battle Royale as the character Michonne
2020 Danai Gurira's likeness was featured in the video game Fortnite Battle Royale as the character Michonne
March 2020 Gurira aired her final episode of The Walking Dead, titled 'What We Become', after appearing in 96 episodes of the show.
March 2020 Gurira aired her final episode of The Walking Dead, titled 'What We Become', after appearing in 96 episodes of the show.
2019 Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series for The Walking Dead
2019 Reprised her role as Okoye in 'Avengers: Endgame', continuing her significant Marvel character arc
2019 Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther
2019 Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series for The Walking Dead
2019 Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series for The Walking Dead
2019 Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther
2019 Reprised her role as Okoye in 'Avengers: Endgame', continuing her significant Marvel character arc
2018 Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther and the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018
2018 Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther
2018 Gurira won the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018 for Black Panther
2018 Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther and the People's Choice Award for Action Movie Star of 2018
2018 Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther and the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018
2018 Gurira won the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018 for Black Panther
2018 Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther
December 2 2018 Announced as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights.
December 2 2018 Announced as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights.
February 2018 Gurira was cast as General Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther film, receiving critical acclaim and winning a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
February 2018 Gurira was cast as General Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther film, receiving critical acclaim and winning a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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