DeWanda Wise

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Birth Name: DeWanda Jackson

Age: 42, born 30 May 1984

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 6"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Alano Miller

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Description: DeWanda Jackson (known professionally as DeWanda Wise) is an American actress. She plays the lead role as Nola Darling in Spike Lee's 10-episode 2017 Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, a contemporary updating of his 1986 film. She was born DeWanda Jackson in Jessup, Maryland and raised in Woodlawn, Laurel, and Baltimore. In high school, Wise thought she wanted to be a therapist until she took AP Psychology and decided that was not the case. 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 gr ... (more)

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"Movies:• Black Swan Theory (2011) : Commits suicide by shooting herself in the head.• The Harder They Fall (2021) : Shot in the chest by Idris Elba as her son, Chase Dillon, watches in horror.TV:• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Dirty (2011) : Shot to death, along with Danny Henriquez by an assassin hired by Doug Drucker. Her and Danny's bodies are shown when Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Kenny Johnson, and Shohreh Aghdashloo find them."