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name: "Yaya DaCosta"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 November 1982"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-17T07:22:11.052610+00:00"
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# Yaya DaCosta

Actor. Born 15 November 1982 in Harlem, New York, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 November 1982, Harlem, New York, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Yaya Alafia, Camara DaCosta Johnson
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260211, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1861624/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60033

## Biography

Yaya DaCosta, also credited as Yaya Alafia and Camara DaCosta Johnson, is an American actress and model. She was the runner-up in cycle three of *America's Next Top Model* (2004). She attended Brown University, where she studied Africana studies and international relations.

DaCosta made her feature film debut in *Take the Lead* (2006). She played Tanya in the ensemble film *The Kids Are All Right* (2010) and appeared in *Tron: Legacy* (2010), *In Time* (2011), *The Butler* (2013) and *The Nice Guys* (2016). On television she has had roles in *All My Children* (2008), *Ugly Betty* (2009) and *Chicago Med* (2015–2022) as April Sexton, and starred as Whitney Houston in the television film *Whitney* (2015).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Kids Are All Right* (2010), Fi1m 80, as Tanya — [page](https://film.one/film/the-kids-are-all-right.md)

## Also known for

- *In Time* (2011), Greta
- *The Nice Guys* (2016), Tally
- *TRON: Legacy* (2010), Siren #3
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Audrina
- *The Butler* (2013), Carol Hammie
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), April Sexton
- *Chicago Fire* (2012), April Sexton
- *Chicago Med* (2015), April Sexton

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