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name: "Ariana DeBose"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ariana-debose"
fi1m_id: "ariana-debose"
imdb_id: "nm3663196"
tmdb_id: 1437491
wikidata_id: "Q27733932"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 January 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 51
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-22T02:20:38.471656+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ariana DeBose

## Identity

Ariana DeBose

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ariana-debose
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ariana-debose
- **IMDb ID:** nm3663196
- **TMDB ID:** 1437491
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27733932
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_DeBose, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27733932, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3663196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1437491

Actor. Born 25 January 1991 in North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 January 1991, North Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** არიანა დებოსი
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 51, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 51 to 51 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 5 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 6 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Comedy 2, Crime 2, Drama 2, Romance 2
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $507m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_DeBose, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27733932, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3663196/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1437491

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*West Side Story*](https://film.one/film/west-side-story-2021.md) (79), [*Wish*](https://film.one/film/wish.md) (49)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Scarpetta*](https://film.one/tv/scarpetta.md) (50)
- **Apple TV:** [*Argylle*](https://film.one/film/argylle.md) (45)
- **Netflix:** [*Kraven the Hunter*](https://film.one/film/kraven-the-hunter.md) (41)
- **Peacock:** [*Love Hurts*](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md) (40)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Ariana DeBose

> Ariana DeBose is a dancer first, and *West Side Story* is the one film that has let her move. Since then she has been asked to sing in *Wish* and explain the plot in *Kraven the Hunter*, and has deserved more than she was given.

Watch the moment in *West Side Story* (2021) when Anita leads "America" out of a courtyard and into the street. Steven Spielberg's camera circles, Janusz Kamiński's hard sunlight bounces off the tenements, and Ariana DeBose is at the centre of it, moving as if the choreography were something she had just thought of. We grinned for the whole number and did not care who saw. It is the plainest statement of what she does: she is a dancer before she is anything else, and when a film lets her move it stops being a film with a cast and becomes one with an engine.

She came up through dance and the New York stage: *Bring It On: The Musical* (2012), ensemble work in *Motown*, *Pippin* and *Hamilton* (2015–2016), then a featured turn in *Summer: The Donna Summer Musical* (2018). Spielberg's film was the one that made the wider world look. Her Anita is quick, funny and in charge of every room she enters, and she carries one late scene, which we will not describe, with a fury that hushed the cinema we saw it in. Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar cut the numbers on the beat but let the shots run long enough to see she is really dancing, which is the kindest thing an editor can do for someone with her training. She has said she speaks dance better than she speaks English, and that film took her at her word.

What followed did not. *Wish* (2023) gave her a voice and took away her body; she sings Asha with clear, unfussy power and plays her as an anxious talker, which is a welcome change after a decade of gasping heroines, but the songs are gone before the credits are. *Argylle* (2024) does not give her enough to notice. *Kraven the Hunter* (2024) makes her a lawyer in London with a deck of tarot cards whose main job is to explain the premise for the second time. *Scarpetta* (2026) hands her a niece, and she deserves more than she is given.

Most critics have had only kind things to say about her, and about the work itself we agree. The reservation is with the casting. Stillness and exposition are what the last four projects have asked for, and she is competent at both, but competent is not what she was in *West Side Story*, and it is not what she is for. It is the old difficulty of the dancer on screen: producers see the breakthrough and hire the face rather than the feet.

Somebody should build a film around the way she moves rather than the way she reads a line. Until then, watch the courtyard scene again.

## Biography

Ariana DeBose is an American actress. She was born on 25 January 1991 in Wilmington, North Carolina. She began her career as a dancer and competed on the sixth season of *So You Think You Can Dance* in 2009. She made her Broadway debut in *Bring It On: The Musical* (2011) and later appeared in productions including *Hamilton* (2015).

DeBose gained wider recognition for her role as Anita in Steven Spielberg's *West Side Story* (2021). For the performance she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. Her other film credits include *The Prom* (2020), *Argylle* (2024) as Keira, *Wish* (2023) voicing Asha, and *Kraven the Hunter* (2024) as Calypso Ezili. She appears as Lucy Farinelli-Watson in the series *Scarpetta* (2026). She has hosted the Tony Awards and received a Tony Award nomination for *Summer: The Donna Summer Musical* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Scarpetta* (2026), Fi1m 50, as Lucy Farinelli-Watson — [page](https://film.one/tv/scarpetta.md)
- *Love Hurts* (2025), Fi1m 40, as Rose Carlisle — [page](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md)
- *Argylle* (2024), Fi1m 45, as Keira — [page](https://film.one/film/argylle.md)
- *Kraven the Hunter* (2024), Fi1m 41, as Calypso Ezili — [page](https://film.one/film/kraven-the-hunter.md)
- *Wish* (2023), Fi1m 49, as Asha (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wish.md)
- *West Side Story* (2021), Fi1m 79, as Anita — [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story-2021.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tow* (2026), as Denise · Executive Producer
- *Scarpetta* (2026), series, as Lucy Farinelli-Watson — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/tv/scarpetta.md)
- *Hamilton* (2025), as Ensemble
- *Love Hurts* (2025), as Rose Carlisle — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/love-hurts.md)
- *Kraven the Hunter* (2024), as Calypso Ezili — Fi1m 41, [page](https://film.one/film/kraven-the-hunter.md)
- *San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood* (2024), as Narrrator
- *House of Spoils* (2024), as Chef
- *Argylle* (2024), as Keira — Fi1m 45, [page](https://film.one/film/argylle.md)
- *I.S.S.* (2024), as Dr. Kira Foster
- *Wish* (2023), as Asha (voice) — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/wish.md)
- *Once Upon a Studio* (2023), as Asha (voice)
- *Human Resources* (2022), series, as Danielle (voice)
- *The Stories of West Side Story* (2022), Thanks
- *West Side Story* (2021), as Anita — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story-2021.md)
- *The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration* (2021), Actor
- *Schmigadoon!* (2021), series, as Emma Tate, Emcee
- *The Prom* (2020), as Alyssa Greene
- *Seaside* (2018), as Daphne
- *Westworld* (2016), series, as Maya — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/westworld-2016.md)
- *Company* (2011), as Ensemble
- *My Ex-Friend's Wedding*, Actor
- *Lear Rex*, as Cordelia
- *Two and Only*, as Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on Broadway, 2025](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-37d7c4cde6d9.jpg) Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on Broadway, 2025 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on Broadway, 2025](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-567fd5a5e833.jpg) Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on Broadway, 2025 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano2.jpg/1280px-ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "Dead Outlaw" on Broadway, 2025](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-da7152fc35b6.jpg) Ariana DeBose at the Opening Night of "Dead Outlaw" on Broadway, 2025 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano4.jpg/1280px-ArianaDeBose-byPhilipRomano4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ariana DeBose performs at the 100th National Christmas Tree Lighting Wednesday, November 30, 2022, on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Phot](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-a7f55730c114.jpg) Ariana DeBose performs at the 100th National Christmas Tree Lighting Wednesday, November 30, 2022, on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Phot — The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Ariana_DeBose.jpg/1280px-Ariana_DeBose.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-438a711c569e.jpg) Ariana DeBose — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-0d30675694ff.jpg) Ariana DeBose — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-52484cd62421.jpg) Ariana DeBose — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-1bfe3e9fde06.jpg) Ariana DeBose — The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Ariana_DeBose_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-93f8864d5d0e.jpg) Ariana DeBose — Image via TMDB
- ![Ariana DeBose](https://film.one/media/person/10291/gallery-88c34c47a542.jpg) Ariana DeBose — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2022: Best Supporting Actress (won), for *West Side Story*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 2022: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (won), for *West Side Story*

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 2021: Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (won), for *West Side Story*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Time 100 2022: Time 100 (won)
- Out100 2021: Out100 (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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