Danielle Deadwyler

Danielle Deadwyler (birthname: Danielle Deadwyler) is a rising star who first gained acclaim for her performance in the revisionist Western, The Harder They Fall (2021). Deadwyler performed in a recurring role in Tyler Perry’s primetime soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots (2016-2020), as well as several stage performances and a number of roles in short films, small independent features, and in small supporting roles in such features as Gifted (2017), starring Chris Evans, and The Leisure Seeker (2017), starring Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren. Deadwyler’s first starring role of note was as a Black woman converting to Mormonism in the indie feature, Jane and Emma (2018).

Deadwyler then co-starred and produced the indie film co-directed and written by Lane and Ruckus Skye, The Devil to Pay (2019), with Catherine Dyer. Deadwyler’s breakout role was as Cuffee in writer-director Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall, co-written by Boaz Yakin and co-starring Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, and Lakeith Stanfield.

The most prominent role to date for Danielle Deadwyler was as Mamie Till in writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s Civil Rights-era drama, Till (2022), with Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, and Whoopi Goldberg. Deadwyler joined co-stars Aldis Hodge and Edwin Hodge in director Kourosh Ahari’s sci-fi thriller, Parallel (date to be announced). Following in the genre vein, Deadwyler was cast in the A24-produced (including producer Emma Stone) horror film, I Saw the TV Glow (date to be announced), with Fred Durst, Justice Smith, and Phoebe Bridgers.

The Jaume Collet-Serra-directed airborne thriller, Carry On (date to be announced), was one of Deadwyler’s first major studio assignments in which she co-starred with Taron Edgerton, Jason Bateman, and Sofia Carson.