Zainab Jah
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- Watching Mr. Pearson as The Advisor
2024
- Drift as Etweda Kamara
2023
- The Continental: From the World of John Wick as Mazie
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt as Older Mack
- Reunion ... (Director)
2022
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Mining Tribe Elder
- East New York as Adama Gueye
- Launch at Paradise as Elsa
- Sherman as Sherman
2021
- Only Murders in the Building as Ndidi Idoko
- False Positive as Grace Singleton
- The Black Disquisition as Sedalia / Mom
2020
- The Good Lord Bird as Harriet Tubman
- Farewell Amor as Esther
2016
- Buried Deep as Zainab
2015
- Blindspot as President Botros
- Emily & Tim as Helayne Specter (segment 'Healing')
2013
- The Blacklist as Aïssa Joachim
2012
- Elementary as Vicki
2011
- Homeland as Aby Bah
2000
- Dinner Rush as Adrian
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Homeless Person