Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress. She began her career appearing on the Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, before making her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear.
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Deadwyler was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Southwest Atlanta. She is the daughter of a legal secretary, Carolyn G Deadwyler in Atlanta City in Georgia. and a railroad supervisor and has three siblings.
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She graduated from Grady High School (now Midtown High School) and then Spelman College before receiving a Master of Arts in American Studies from Columbia University. In 2017, she earned a second master’s degree, in creative writing, at Ashland University in Ohio.
Deadwyler will next play the lead role in the sci-fi thriller Parallel directed by Kourosh Ahari, a remake of Lei Zheng’s Chinese feature of the same name. She will also appear in the horror-thriller film I Saw the TV Glow and the action thriller Carry-On for Netflix.