---
name: "Tracy Camilla Johns"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tracy-camilla-johns"
fi1m_id: "tracy-camilla-johns"
imdb_id: "nm0424370"
tmdb_id: 99358
wikidata_id: "Q3997155"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 April 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:20:34.253788+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."
---

# Tracy Camilla Johns

## Identity

Tracy Camilla Johns

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tracy-camilla-johns
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tracy-camilla-johns
- **IMDb ID:** nm0424370
- **TMDB ID:** 99358
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3997155
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Camilla_Johns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3997155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99358

Actor. Born 12 April 1963 in Queens, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 April 1963, Queens, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Tracy Camila Johns
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Camilla_Johns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3997155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424370/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99358

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*She's Gotta Have It*](https://film.one/film/shes-gotta-have-it.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Tracy Camilla Johns is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in the leading role of Nola Darling in Spike Lee's 1986 film *She's Gotta Have It*. She received a nomination for Best Female Lead at the 1987 Independent Spirit Awards for the performance.

Johns appeared in the films *Mo' Better Blues* (1990) and *New Jack City* (1991). Her television credits include a role in the series *Family Ties* and *Snoops*. She reprised the character of Nola Darling, now an older woman, in Lee's 2012 film *Red Hook Summer* and made a cameo appearance in the 2017 Netflix series *She's Gotta Have It*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *She's Gotta Have It* (1986), Fi1m 68, as Nola Darling — [page](https://film.one/film/shes-gotta-have-it.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Red Hook Summer* (2012), as Mother Darling
- *New Jack City* (1991), as Uniqua
- *Mo' Better Blues* (1990), as Club Patron
- *Snoops* (1989), series, as Yolanda
- *She's Gotta Have It* (1986), as Nola Darling — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/shes-gotta-have-it.md)
- *Family Ties* (1982), series, as Dana

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