DeWanda Wise
Date of birth: 1984-05-30
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: DeWanda Jackson , ДеВанда Вайз, 德汪達·懷斯, دیواندا وایز
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.
Movie Credits
The Harder They Fall
2021-10-22
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthl
Behind the Lines
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired
Pariah
2007-04-19
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends an
Firelight
2012-04-22
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disas
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
2022-06-04
Join the cast of "Jurassic World Dominion" as they relive their favorite unforgettable, action-packe
Poolman
2024-05-09
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool
Killing Faith
2025-10-03
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her
Imaginary
2024-03-06
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice dev
African Booty Scratcher
2007-10-18
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this
Black Swan Theory
2011-02-21
A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbl
Knucklehead
2015-02-01
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a
How To Tell You're A Douchebag
2016-01-25
Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack (“freelance writer, actually”) responsible for Brookl
Someone Great
2019-04-19
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyf
The Weekend
2019-09-13
A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Fatherhood
2021-06-18
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his
Jurassic World Dominion
2022-06-01
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over th
Train
2010-01-06
Late night in New York, Carl takes the Brooklyn bound F train home and runs into trouble in this tho
Love, Brooklyn
2025-08-29
Roger, a writer, navigates complicated relationships with his ex Casey and his current lover Nicole,
Killer Bee
A retiring assassin who takes on an underground criminal network after being tasked to kill the man
Spinning Into Butter
2007-01-01
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position wh