DeWanda Wise

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
May 30, 1984 (41 years old)

DeWanda Wise

Known For

Three Women
TV Show 2024

Three Women

Three women from different walks of life take radical steps to explore their true desires, while struggling to emerge from a prison of expectations. A writer, grieving her own loss, persuades each of them to tell her their stories.

Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
0h 44m
Movie 2022

Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World

Join the cast of "Jurassic World Dominion" as they relive their favorite unforgettable, action-packed and epic moments from the "Jurassic World" franchise.

Jurassic World Dominion
2h 27m
Movie 2022

Jurassic World Dominion

Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

The Harder They Fall
2h 19m
Movie 2021

The Harder They Fall

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.

Fatherhood
1h 49m
Movie 2021

Fatherhood

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.

The Weekend
1h 26m
Movie 2019

The Weekend

A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

Someone Great
1h 32m
Movie 2019

Someone Great

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 nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one outrageous last adventure in New York City.

She's Gotta Have It
0h 30m
TV Show 2017

She's Gotta Have It

Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee's film, in 10 episodes.

Shots Fired
0h 45m
TV Show 2017

Shots Fired

A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.

Knucklehead
1h 23m
Movie 2015

Knucklehead

When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard) Langston must take his future into his own hands. He sets out to find the one doctor he believes can cure him, a celebrity magazine columnist who touts questionable prescription drug cocktails. If Langston can become "mentally excellent", it will mean moving into an apartment of his own with his girlfriend, who may herself be a creation of his wishful thinking. Landing in the unscrupulous world of pharmaceutical marketing, the search for his mysterious doctor and hero leads to some unwanted discoveries. Langston strives for independence from his prior life; from his mother, from his neighborhood and from his fractured mind - while all around him people are not who they seem.

Biography

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.

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