DeWanda Wise
DeWanda Wise is an American actress. She has played the lead role as "Nola Darling" in Spike Lee's 2017 Netflix series (10-episodes) She's Gotta Have It- a contemporary update of his 1986 film.
DeWanda was born in Jessup, Maryland and raised in Woodlawn, Laurel and Baltimore. She began acting her sophomore year of at Atholton High School when her high school theatre director, Nathan Rosen offered her a part in a production en lieu of detention. In 2006, she graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a bachelor's in fine arts in drama and urban studies. During her undergraduate years she worked as a resident assistant and a stocker at Trader Joe's.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 27.635 |
Birthday | 1984-05-30 |
Place of Birth | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Also Known As | DeWanda Jackson , ДеВанда Вайз, 德汪達·懷斯, |
2012
Firelight
5.9/12
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
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Firelight
2015
Knucklehead
7.5/3
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now und...
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Knucklehead
2016
How To Tell You're A Douchebag
3.6/9
Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack (“freelance writer, actually”) responsible for Brooklyn’s infamous blog, “Occasionally Dating Black Wom...
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How To Tell You're A Douchebag
2019
Someone Great
6.371/1134
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To n...
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Someone Great
2019
The Weekend
6.1/12
A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
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The Weekend
2021
Fatherhood
7.547/1342
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
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Fatherhood
2022
Jurassic World Dominion
6.713/5756
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the fut...
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Jurassic World Dominion
2010
Train
0/0
Late night in New York, Carl takes the Brooklyn bound F train home and runs into trouble in this thought provoking short film about fear and guilt.
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Train
2021
The Harder They Fall
6.643/995
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
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The Harder They Fall
2022
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
6.813/8
Join the cast of "Jurassic World Dominion" as they relive their favorite unforgettable, action-packed and epic moments from the "Jurassic World" franc...
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Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
2024
Poolman
0/0
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting...
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Poolman
2007
African Booty Scratcher
0/0
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition confli...
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African Booty Scratcher
2011
Black Swan Theory
0/0
A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbles around her; she must hunt or become the hunted.
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Black Swan Theory
War Unfolding
0/0
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the...
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War Unfolding
2007
Pariah
1/1
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and...
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Pariah
Killing Faith
0/0
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...
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Killing Faith
2024
Imaginary
6.3/277
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named...
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