Aja Naomi King
Aja Naomi King (/ˈeɪdʒə/; born January 11, 1985) is an American actress. She began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred as Cassandra Kopelson in short-lived The CW medical comedy-drama, Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–13). She also has starred in the films Four (2012) and Reversion (2015).
Aja Naomi King | |
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King in December 2014 | |
| Born | January 11, 1985 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BFA) Yale University (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Spouse | Dan King |
| Children | 1 |
From 2014 to 2020, King starred as Michaela Pratt in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2015. In 2016, she portrayed Cherry Turner in the historical film The Birth of a Nation (2016), receiving positive reviews from critics and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture nomination. Since then, King appeared in the comedy-drama film The Upside (2017), played human rights activist Ifrah Ahmed 2019 in the biographical drama A Girl from Mogadishu (2019), and had roles in Sylvie's Love (2020), The 24th (2020) and Boxing Day (2021).