Nilaja Sun

Known For: Acting

Biography

Nilaja Sun (born Nilaja Sun Gordon) is an actress, playwright, and a teaching artist from the Lower East Side in New York City. Sun has taught theatre in New York City public schools since 1998 and is best known for her award-winning one-person play, No Child... She is half Puerto Rican and half African-American.

Filmography

2021

The Snakes as Heather

2016

BrainDead as Breanna Burke

2014

Madam Secretary as CIA Agent Juliet

2013

Hairbrained as Skidmore Moderator

2012

The Bourne Legacy as Blue Lab Doctor
Nature Calls as Moses' Mother

2011

Unforgettable as Ivory

2010

Louie as Woman on Phone
Knight and Day as Allison

2009

The Good Wife as Divya Feldman
Nurse Jackie as Tress
The International as Detective Gloria Hubbard

2006

30 Rock as Irene

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Triage Nurse