--- name: "Teyonah Parris" canonical: "https://film.one/person/teyonah-parris" fi1m_id: "teyonah-parris" imdb_id: "nm3500582" tmdb_id: 970219 wikidata_id: "Q19666388" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 September 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 72 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-22T03:13:47.752567+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." --- # Teyonah Parris ## Identity Teyonah Parris - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teyonah-parris - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** teyonah-parris - **IMDb ID:** nm3500582 - **TMDB ID:** 970219 - **Wikidata ID:** Q19666388 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teyonah_Parris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19666388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3500582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/970219 Actor. Born 22 September 1987 in Hopkins, South Carolina, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 September 1987, Hopkins, South Carolina, USA - **Active:** 2018–present - **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 63 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teyonah_Parris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19666388, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3500582/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/970219 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*If Beale Street Could Talk*](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) (81) - **Disney+:** [*The Marvels*](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) (63) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Teyonah Parris > Teyonah Parris handles stylised comedy without making the character feel false. We rate her comic precision and her steadiness in drama, though *The Marvels* leaves us wishing she had been given more to do. In *The Marvels* (2023), Teyonah Parris gives Monica Rambeau a dignity the hurried film scarcely makes time for. Her resentment of Carol Danvers is raised, then forgotten, leaving Parris to hold our interest without much help from the writing. We were frustrated by how quickly the film dropped that resentment: it had given Monica something to feel about another person. Parris remains worth watching, but we cannot pretend she has been given a satisfying part. Her breakthrough was Dawn Chambers in *Mad Men* (2012–2015), a recurring role that preceded her work in independent films. She played Coco in *Dear White People* (2014), then took the lead as Lysistrata in Spike Lee’s *Chi-Raq* (2015). By *WandaVision* (2021), she was moving between the programme’s decade-specific sitcom styles and its drama as Monica Rambeau. That requires comic timing as well as a convincing person beneath the changes in performance style. Her naturalism does not mean she can only play things straight. Barry Jenkins’s *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018) gives her a more rewarding place in an ensemble. As Ernestine Rivers, Parris contributes to the film’s warmth towards a young couple and their families, which makes the injustice feel personal. It is a good setting for her grounded acting, with supporting characters given a share of our attention. The film sometimes moves too slowly, though, and the narration labours feelings the actors have already made clear. Nia DaCosta’s *The Marvels* gives its actors a different problem: keeping their characters distinct while their powers send them swapping places. Editors Evan Schiff and Catrin Hedström match the action across frames, so a punch begun in one location can finish in another. The sequence is cheerful and clear, and there is pleasure in watching the three heroines work within its rules. But the script does not give Monica’s grievance anything like that care. For Parris, start with *If Beale Street Could Talk*, and do not mistake Monica’s thin writing for a limit on the actor. ## Biography Teyonah Parris is an American actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School and began her professional career in 2010. Her early prominent roles include Dawn Chambers in the series *Mad Men* (2012–2015) and a part in the film *Dear White People* (2014). She later appeared in *Empire* (2015), *Chi-Raq* (2015), *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), *Candyman* (2021) and *They Cloned Tyrone* (2023). In 2021 she began portraying Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first in the series *WandaVision* and then in the film *The Marvels* (2023). She has also voiced the character in *What If...?* (2021). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The Marvels* (2023), Fi1m 63, as Monica Rambeau — [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) - *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Fi1m 81, as Ernestine Rivers — [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) ## Complete filmography (32) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Matchbox the Movie* (2026), as Charmaine — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/matchbox-the-movie.md) - *No Good Deed* (2024), series, as Carla Owens - *Dashing Through the Snow* (2023), as Allison Garrick - *The Marvels* (2023), as Monica Rambeau — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) - *They Cloned Tyrone* (2023), as Yo-Yo - *Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special* (2021), as Monica Rambeau / Geraldine (archive footage) - *Candyman* (2021), as Brianna Cartwright - *What If...?* (2021), series, as Monica Rambeau (voice) — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/what-if.md) - *WandaVision* (2021), series, as Monica Rambeau / Geraldine - *The Photograph* (2020), as Asia - *Charm City Kings* (2020), as Mouse’s Mom - *Point Blank* (2019), as Taryn - *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), as Ernestine Rivers — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) - *Five Nights in Maine* (2016), as Penelope - *Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story* (2016), as Miki - *90 Days* (2016), as Jessica - *Chi-Raq* (2015), as Lysistrata - *Empire* (2015), series, as Pamela Rose - *Where Children Play* (2015), as Bellissima Mccain - *Dear White People* (2014), as Colandrea 'Coco' Conners - *Survivor's Remorse* (2014), series, as Missy Vaughn - *They Came Together* (2014), as Wanda - *A Picture of You* (2014), as Mika - *Wu Is Dead* (2011), as Alma - *How Do You Know* (2010), as Riva - *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Melinda Gossett — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md) - *Mad Men* (2007), series, as Dawn Chambers — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md) - *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Karen Branston - *Empire Corner*, Actor - *Running*, Actor - *Turpentine*, Actor - *Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Affair*, as Mia Johnson ## Gallery - ![Teyonah Parris at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/15505/gallery-c02e4ca973b8.jpg) Teyonah Parris at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/TeyonahParris-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-TeyonahParris-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Teyonah Parris at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/15505/gallery-7872b42ffd5f.jpg) Teyonah Parris at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/TeyonahParris-byPhilipRomano2.jpg/1280px-TeyonahParris-byPhilipRomano2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Teyonah Parris](https://film.one/media/person/15505/gallery-ab1b0c0c04c3.jpg) Teyonah Parris — Image via TMDB - ![Teyonah Parris](https://film.one/media/person/15505/gallery-84bda4531bc0.jpg) Teyonah Parris — Image via TMDB - ![Teyonah Parris](https://film.one/media/person/15505/gallery-ae8916427901.jpg) Teyonah Parris — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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