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name: "DeWanda Wise"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 May 1984"
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updated: "2026-09-19T16:31:50.307325+00:00"
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# DeWanda Wise

Actor. Born 30 May 1984 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 May 1984, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- **Also known as:** DeWanda Jackson , ДеВанда Вайз, 德汪達·懷斯, دی‌واندا وایز
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWanda_Wise, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33026764, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1986622/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/206425

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Jurassic World Dominion*](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md) (42)

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

## Biography

DeWanda Wise is an American actress. She played Kayla Watts in the film *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022). She is also known for her lead role as Nola Darling in Spike Lee's Netflix series *She's Gotta Have It* (2017–2019), a contemporary adaptation of his 1986 film.

Wise was born on 30 May 1984 in Jessup, Maryland, and raised in Woodlawn, Laurel and Baltimore. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006 with a BFA in drama and urban studies. Her other credits include *Someone Great* (2019), *The Harder They Fall* (2021) and *Fatherhood* (2021). She is married to actor Alano Miller.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), Fi1m 42, as Kayla Watts — [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Killing Faith* (2025), as Sarah
- *Love, Brooklyn* (2025), as Nicole
- *Murderbot* (2025), series, as Navigation Unit
- *Three Women* (2024), series, as Sloane
- *Poolman* (2024), as June Del Rey
- *Imaginary* (2024), as Jessica · Executive Producer
- *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), as Kayla Watts — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md)
- *The Harder They Fall* (2021), as Eleanor Love
- *Invasion* (2021), series, as Deputy Grady
- *Fatherhood* (2021), as Lizzie aka Swan
- *The Weekend* (2019), as Margo Johnson
- *Someone Great* (2019), as Erin Kennedy
- *The Twilight Zone* (2019), series, as Alexa Brandt
- *She's Gotta Have It* (2017), series, as Nola Darling
- *Shots Fired* (2017), series, as Shameeka Campbell
- *How To Tell You're A Douchebag* (2016), as Rochelle Marseilles
- *Knucklehead* (2015), as Charlotte
- *Firelight* (2012), as Terry Easle
- *Black Swan Theory* (2011), as Sonya
- *Train* (2010), Actor
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Jenni Salerno — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Spinning Into Butter* (2009), as Claudia Thompson
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Tanya Dean
- *Steam* (2007), as Lynn
- *African Booty Scratcher* (2007), as Isatu
- *Pariah* (2007), as Mika
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Angela
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Lakeisha Watkins
- *Killer Bee*, as Executive Producer
- *Untitled Black Rodeo Drama*, series, as Anaya Clarke-Reagan

## Gallery

- ![DeWanda Wise](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-760f4bc0b760.png) DeWanda Wise — MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/DeWanda_Wise_%282019%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn"](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-a6f4295a3057.jpg) DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn" — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-23_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-23_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn"](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-7ca88f6411ee.jpg) DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn" — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-24_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-24_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![DeWanda Wise and Cassandra Freeman at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn"](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-5233b6b9069b.jpg) DeWanda Wise and Cassandra Freeman at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn" — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-25_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-25_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![DeWanda Wise](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-f1c4ad2dfc57.jpg) DeWanda Wise — Image via TMDB
- ![DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn"](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-a715f905fcf6.jpg) DeWanda Wise at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of "Love, Brooklyn" — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-39_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_27_Sundance_Film_Festival-39_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise play the Real Or Fake cocktail game, tell us their funniest memories and fave things about each other. (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/1093395/gallery-897804d3aef2.png) Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise play the Real Or Fake cocktail game, tell us their funniest memories and fave things about each other. (2019) — MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Gina_Rodriguez%2C_Brittany_Snow_and_DeWanda_Wise.png/1280px-Gina_Rodriguez%2C_Brittany_Snow_and_DeWanda_Wise.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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