Zainab Jah
- Known for
- Acting
Zainab Jah was raised in Sierra Leone and returned to London at the age of ten. After graduating from London Contemporary Dance, she toured as a modern dancer, eventually trading dance for acting. She appeared in numerous plays, winning rave reviews for shows both on and off-Broadway including the Tony-nominated Eclipsed, and won Best Actress from the Philadelphia Critic’s Circle for Hamlet at the Wilma Theatre. Her work in film & TV includes anti-corruption minister Aminata Sissoko in the second season of Deep State, Aby Bah in Homeland, and Harriet Tubman in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird. Other work includes appearances on Blindspot, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the EPIX series Deep State, and the Sundance hit Farewell Amor. Most recently, she was featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She can currently be seen in the John Wick spin-off mini-series The Continental.
Known for
Writing 1
- 2026Reunion · writer
Acting 13
- 2026Watching Mr. Pearson as The Advisor
- 2024Drift as Etweda Kamara
- 2023All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt as Older Mack
- 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Mining Tribe Elder
- 2022Launch at Paradise as Elsa
- 2022Sherman as Sherman
- 2021The Black Disquisition as Sedalia / Mom
- 2021False Positive as Grace Singleton
- 2020Farewell Amor as Esther
- 2016Buried Deep as Zainab
- 2015Emily & Tim as Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
- 2000Dinner Rush as Adrian
- 1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Homeless Person · 1 episode
Directing 1
- 2023Reunion · director