---
name: "Deborah Ayorinde"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deborah-ayorinde"
fi1m_id: "deborah-ayorinde"
imdb_id: "nm3831822"
tmdb_id: 1292479
wikidata_id: "Q106561499"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 August 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T11:23:10.264858+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."
---

# Deborah Ayorinde

## Identity

Deborah Ayorinde

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/deborah-ayorinde
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** deborah-ayorinde
- **IMDb ID:** nm3831822
- **TMDB ID:** 1292479
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106561499
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Ayorinde, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106561499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3831822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292479

Actor. Born 13 August 1987 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 August 1987, London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Deborah Olayinka Ayorinde, 黛博拉·阿約林德
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Ayorinde, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106561499, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3831822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292479

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Fightland*](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md) (47)

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## Biography

Deborah Ayorinde is a British-Nigerian actress. She was born on 13 August 1987 in London, England, and raised in the United States. She graduated from Howard University with a BA in Film Production in 2009 and made her professional stage debut in London in the play *Wedding Band*.

Her television credits include recurring roles in *True Detective* (2019) and *Luke Cage* (2016), and lead roles as Livia 'Lucky' Emory in the anthology series *Them* (2021–2024) and Nina Richards in *Riches* (2022). In 2026 she appears as Joy Marshall in the series *Fightland*. Film roles include *Harriet* (2019), *Girls Trip* (2017) and *Fatherhood* (2021).

Ayorinde received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in *Them* and a Stage Debut Award nomination for *Wedding Band*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fightland* (2026), Fi1m 47, as Joy Marshall — [page](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Fightland* (2026), series, as Joy Marshall — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/tv/fightland.md)
- *Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue* (2025), series, as Claire Sundiata
- *Sense and Sensibility* (2024), as Elinor Dashwood
- *Chasing the Night* (2023), as Fatimah
- *Riches* (2022), series, as Nina
- *Fatherhood* (2021), as Liz
- *Them* (2021), series, as Lucky Emory, Detective Dawn Reeve
- *Always and Forever* (2020), as Sommer
- *Truth Be Told* (2019), series, as Rose Gil
- *Harriet* (2019), as Rachel Ross
- *Where Is Kyra?* (2018), as DMV Attendant
- *Girls Trip* (2017), as Simone
- *The Wizard of Lies* (2017), as Salon Receptionist
- *Marvel's Luke Cage* (2016), series, as Candace
- *Bad Dad Rehab* (2016), as Regina
- *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016), as Marquita
- *Bad Asses on the Bayou* (2015), as Taryn
- *Constantine* (2014), series, as Sullivan
- *The Affair* (2014), series, as Jessa
- *True Detective* (2014), series, as Becca Hays — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *Sleepy Hollow* (2013), series, as Michelle
- *Django Unchained* (2012), as Cleopatra Pony (uncredited) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/django-unchained.md)

## Gallery

- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-7dca7648526a.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB
- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-dc124db1de31.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB
- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-4e30dc1c0445.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB
- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-9ae6c242721e.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB
- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-9eecacaff356.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB
- ![Deborah Ayorinde](https://film.one/media/person/3780206/gallery-f061a91ecda8.jpg) Deborah Ayorinde — Image via TMDB

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