Biography
Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress. She began her career appearing on the Atlanta stage and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the series The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), P-Valley (2020), the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022) and From Scratch (2022).
Deadwyler received critical attention for her roles in The Harder They Fall (2021) and as Mamie Till in Till (2022), for which she received BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She starred as Berniece Charles in The Piano Lesson (2024) and as Dylan Shepard in the series Rooster (2026). She was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2025.
She holds a BA from Spelman College, an MA from Columbia University and an MFA from Ashland University.
