DeWanda Wise
DeWanda Wise

DeWanda Wise Biography

DeWanda Wise is a well-known American actress. Spike Lee’s Netflix comedy-drama series She’s Gotta Have It, a modernization of his 1986 film, featured her.

DeWanda Wise Age

De Wanda was born in Jessup, Maryland, the United States on 30 May 1984. She is 38 years old.

DeWanda Wise Height

DeWanda stands at a height of 5ft 5in/1.68 m tall.

DeWanda Wise Education

Wise grew up in Woodlawn, Laurel, and Baltimore after being born in Jessup, Maryland. She thought she wanted to be a therapist in high school until she took AP Psychology and realized it wasn’t for her. Her high school theatre director, Nathan Rosen, offered her a part in a production in lieu of detention during her sophomore year at Atholton High School.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in drama and urban studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2006, where she met Gina Rodriguez. She worked as a resident assistant and a stocker at Trader Joe’s during her undergraduate studies.

DeWanda Wise Family

Wise has managed to maintain a low profile on details regarding her parents and siblings, soon as we have information on this will update it.

DeWanda Wise Boyfriend

After three months of dating, Wise married actor Alano Miller in 2009. She is a vegan. She resides in Pasadena, California.

DeWanda Wise Career

Wise first appeared on television in episodes of shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, and Boardwalk Empire. She made her film debut in the 2007 drama Spinning into Butter, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and then went on to play supporting roles in Steam (2007) and Precious (2009).

She appeared in the independent romantic comedy film How to Tell You’re a Douchebag, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. She had a recurring role in the WGN period drama Underground the following year, and she co-starred in the Fox miniseries Shots Fired with Sanaa Lathan.

She starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series She’s Gotta Have It in 2017, which was canceled after two seasons in 2019. She was cast in Disney’s Captain Marvel in 2018, but she dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with her Netflix series. [10] That same year, she starred in Stella Meghie’s comedy film The Weekend.

DeWanda Movies and Tv Shows

Movies

  • Steam (Lynn) (2007)
  • Precious (Miriam) (2009)
  • Us: A Love Story (Scowling Woman) (2009)
  • Beyond Words (Paige) (2009)
  • Train (2010)
  • Pour aimer, encore (Syl) (2010)
  • A Walk in the Park (2011)
  • Smoking Nonsmoking (Reporter) (2011)
  • Black Swan Theory (2011)
  • Frisk (G) (2012)
  • Knucklehead (Charlotte) (2015)
  • How to Tell You’re a Douchebag (Rochelle Marseilles) (2016)
  • The Weekend (Margo Johnson) (2018)
  • Someone Great (Erin Kennedy) (2019)
  • Fatherhood (Lizzie aka Swan) (2021)
  • The Harder They Fall (Eleanor Love) (2021)
  • Jurassic World Dominion (Kayla Watts) (2022)

Tv Shows

  • Firelight (Terry Easle) (2012)
  • The Mentalist (Tanya Dean) (2014)
  • Sorta My Thing (Andrea) (2015)
  • Underground (Clara) (2017)
  • Shots Fired (Shameeka Campbell) (2017)
  • She’s Gotta Have It (Nola Darling) (2017-2019)
  • The Twilight Zone (Alexa Brandt) (2019)
  • Invasion (Deputy Grady) (2021)

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