Biography
DezBaa', also credited as Dez Baa' or Sharon Anne Henderson, is a Diné actor, screenwriter and producer. A citizen of the Navajo Nation of Basque, Spanish and Mexican descent, she was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and raised in the Española area. She holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Amherst College and two MFAs from the Institute of American Indian Arts, one in screenwriting and one in creative nonfiction; she also studied filmmaking at Northern New Mexico College.
She began working as a background actor in New Mexico before securing featured and speaking roles in films including Hostiles (2017), Woman Walks Ahead (2017) and Unpregnant (2020). On television she has appeared in Longmire, Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023) and When You Finish Saving the World (2022). She played Helen Atcitty across multiple seasons of the AMC series Dark Winds (2022–) and served as a staff writer on its second season, receiving a teleplay credit on one episode.
