Amirah Vann began her career on the Off-Broadway stage before starring in the WGN America period drama series, Underground, for which she received NAACP Image Award nomination.
15 Facts About Amirah Vann
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Amirah Vann later starred as attorney Tegan Price in the ABC legal thriller series, How to Get Away with Murder.
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In 2022, Vann starred in the period romantic drama film, A Jazzman's Blues.
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Amirah Charline Vann was born on June 24,1980, in Queens, New York.
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Amirah Vann's father is African-American from Georgia, and her mother is Puerto Rican.
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Amirah Vann attended Midwood High School and then Far Rockaway High School, graduating in 1998.
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Amirah Vann then obtained her bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 2002, and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2007.
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Amirah Vann worked for many years in Off-Broadway theater before transitioning to film and television.
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Amirah Vann appeared in secondary roles in films, including And So It Goes and Tracers, before her breakthrough performance as Ernestine, the head house slave of the Macon plantation, in the WGN America period drama series Underground in 2016.
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At the 48th NAACP Image Awards, Amirah Vann received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her performance.
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In early 2018, Amirah Vann went to star on the ABC drama pilot The Holmes Sisters produced by Regina King and Robin Roberts.
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In 2019, Amirah Vann was cast as corporate lobbyist Parker Campbell in season four of the OWN drama Queen Sugar.
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Amirah Vann had a supporting role in the 2019 drama film, Miss Virginia.
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In 2022, Amirah Vann starred in the period romantic drama film, A Jazzman's Blues playing the role of singer Hattie Mae, mother of lead.
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Amirah Vann played actress Diahann Carroll in the biographical drama film Shirley about American politician Shirley Chisholm.