Danielle Deadwyler

Danielle Deadwyler (born May 3, 1982) is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Atlanta stage, notably the 2009 production of For Colored Girls, and made her screen debut in the 2012 drama film A Cross to Bear. She appeared in the primetime series The Haves and the Have Nots (2015–2017), the series P-Valley (2020), the miniseries Station Eleven (2021–2022), and the miniseries From Scratch (2022).

Deadwyler garnered critical acclaim for starring in the western film The Harder They Fall (2021) and the biopic Till (2022). Her portrayal of Mamie Till in the latter earned her many accolades, garnering the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Lead Performance and earning BAFTA Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

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Danielle Deadwyler Movies

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40 Acres (2025)

Action Drama Science Fiction

Hailey Freeman's family has worked the same Canadian soil for generations, their roots stretching back to African American settlers who fled north after the Civil War. Now, in a near-future...

Score 6.7

The Woman in the Yard (2025)

Horror Mystery

Ramona is barely holding her life together after losing her husband, juggling single parenthood and mounting debts. Then a strange woman appears at the property line, seeming to offer help....

Score 5.7

Carry-On (2024)

Action Thriller

Ethan Kopek is a young TSA agent coasting through what should be a routine Christmas Eve shift at a busy airport. Then a stranger approaches with a quiet threat that...

Score 6.9

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Drama Horror

Two suburban outsiders bond over a cryptic late-night television program that seems to blur the boundary between fiction and their waking lives. What begins as shared escapism evolves into something...

Score 6.1

Parallel (2024)

Drama Science Fiction Thriller

Vanessa retreats to a remote lake house carrying the unbearable weight of losing her child, hoping isolation will offer something like peace. What she finds instead is herself, literally, a...

Score 6.4

Till (2022)

Drama History

In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till Mobley sent her fourteen-year-old son Emmett south to visit family in Mississippi. He never came home. Rather than grieve quietly, Mamie made a...

Score 7.3

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Rooster (2026)

Comedy

When a novelist lands on a college campus, he brings more baggage than any freshman orientation could prepare for. The real complication is his daughter, who is also enrolled there,...

Score 7.5

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