1. Samira Denise Wiley was born on April 15,1987 and is an American actress.
18 Facts About Samira Wiley
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Samira Wiley is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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Samira Wiley narrated the Netflix documentary Night on Earth.
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Samira Wiley has two siblings, Aiyana Ma'at and Joshua Wiley.
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Samira Wiley attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, DC, and the Juilliard School, New York City, graduating in 2010.
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In 2011, Samira Wiley played Maria in a theater production of Love's Labour's Lost by The Public Theater.
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Samira Wiley's future wife, Lauren Morelli, was a writer on the show.
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In between seasons of Orange Is the New Black, Samira Wiley filmed Rob the Mob, an independent crime film directed by Raymond De Felitta.
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Samira Wiley appeared in an advertisement for the digital monetary service PayPal in 2014.
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In December 2015, it was announced Samira Wiley had been cast to voice the titular character in the video game The Walking Dead: Michonne.
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Samira Wiley starred in a film called 37, a true story of thirty-seven people who witness a murder and none call the police or intervene.
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Samira Wiley competed against New Black co-star Laverne Cox in an episode of Spike's Lip Sync Battle.
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In 2017, Samira Wiley began playing Moira in the Hulu television series The Handmaid's Tale.
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Samira Wiley portrayed the playwright Lorraine Hansberry in the docu-series Equal in 2020.
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In 2014, Samira Wiley was named Out magazine's Ingenue of the Year.
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In 2017, Samira Wiley received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale, going on to win Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series the following year.
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In November 2017, Samira Wiley was nominated to Out magazine's "OUT100" for 2017 in recognition of her work and her visibility.
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On October 4,2016, Samira Wiley announced her engagement to Orange Is the New Black writer Lauren Morelli and they married on March 25,2017.