
Zainab Jah
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

Watching Mr. Pearson
2026

Only Murders in the Building
2021

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Blacklist
2013

Elementary
2012

Homeland
2011

Blindspot
2015

The Continental: From the World of John Wick
2023

East New York
2022

Dinner Rush
2000

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022

Farewell Amor
2020

The Good Lord Bird
2020

Drift
2024

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
2023

Emily & Tim
2015

False Positive
2021