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name: "Shahadi Wright Joseph"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shahadi-wright-joseph"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 April 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T09:19:43.140763+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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# Shahadi Wright Joseph

Actor. Born 30 April 2005 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 April 2005, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** 沙哈迪·賴特·約瑟夫
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahadi_Wright_Joseph, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62570944, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8630978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1915962

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Us*](https://film.one/film/us.md) (78)

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## Biography

Shahadi Wright Joseph is an American actress, singer and dancer. She began dancing at the age of two and made her Broadway debut at nine as young Nala in the musical *The Lion King*. She later appeared as Madison in the original Broadway cast of *School of Rock* and played Little Inez Stubbs in the 2016 NBC television special *Hairspray Live!*.

In 2019 she voiced young Nala in the film *The Lion King* and starred as Zora Wilson and her doppelgänger Umbrae in Jordan Peele's *Us*. She played Ruby Lee Emory in the Amazon Prime series *Them* (2021). She has also starred in the podcast series *Six Minutes* since 2018.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Us* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Zora Wilson / Umbrae — [page](https://film.one/film/us.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *The Funeral* (2025), as Juno Hadley
- *M.U.B.* (2025), as Debbie
- *Them* (2021), series, as Ruby Emory, Ruby Lee Emory
- *School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play* (2019), as Mercy
- *The Lion King* (2019), as Young Nala (voice)
- *Us* (2019), as Zora Wilson / Umbrae — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/us.md)
- *Hairspray Live!* (2016), as Little Inez
- *Cookbook for Southern Housewives*, as Ruby
- *Altar*, Acting
- *Throw It Back*, Acting
- *Enjoy Your Visit*, as Kara

## Gallery

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- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-4c460ae1edf7.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB
- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-2967f45e9eaa.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB
- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-923b44aa9bac.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB
- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-f18a55f82b6c.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB
- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-ea96eaa7c3b5.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB
- ![Shahadi Wright Joseph](https://film.one/media/person/691943/gallery-00a0d15faa2b.jpg) Shahadi Wright Joseph — Image via TMDB

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