Film & TV
Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known for
- Tangles — (voice)2026
- They Fight — Ketta2026
- Atomic — Cassie Elliott2025
- National Theatre Live: Blues for an Alabama Sky — Angel Allen2022
- Breaking News in Yuba County — Jonelle2021
- Blade Runner: Black Lotus — Officer Alani Davis (voice)2021
- Amend: The Fight for America — Self2021
- Night on Earth: Shot in the Dark — Self - Narrator (voice)2020
- Night on Earth — Self - Narrator (voice)2020
- Equal — Lorraine Hansberry2020
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Key facts
- Born
- Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Education
- Temple University (attended), Juilliard School ( BFA )
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Samira Wiley is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Wiley also had starring roles in such films as The Sitter (2011), Nerve (2016), Detroit (2017), and Social Animals (2018). She also narrated the Netflix documentary Night on Earth (2020).
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20th-century African-American actresses20th-century American actresses21st-century African-American actresses21st-century American actressesActresses from Washington, D.C.African-American LGBTQ peopleAmerican film actressesAmerican LGBTQ actressesAmerican stage actressesAmerican television actressesGLAAD Vito Russo AwardJuilliard School alumni