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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Love, Brooklyn
2025
as Nicole
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
Poolman
2024
as June Del Rey
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting...
Imaginary
2024
as Jessica
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named ...
Imaginary
2024
Executive Producer
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named ...
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
2022
as Self
Join the cast of "Jurassic World Dominion" as they relive their favorite unforgettable, action-packed and epic moments from the "Jurassic World" franc...
Jurassic World Dominion
2022
as Kayla Watts
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the fut...
The Harder They Fall
2021
as Eleanor Love
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
2021
as Lizzie aka Swan
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
2019
as Margo Johnson
A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Someone Great
2019
as Erin Kennedy
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 n...
How To Tell You're A Douchebag
2016
as Rochelle Marseilles
Ray Livingston is a relationship-blogging hack (“freelance writer, actually”) responsible for Brooklyn’s infamous blog, “Occasionally Dating Black Wom...
Knucklehead
2015
as Charlotte
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now und...
Firelight
2012
as Terry Easle
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Black Swan Theory
2011
as Sonya
A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbles around her; she must hunt or become the hunted.
Train
2010
Late night in New York, Carl takes the Brooklyn bound F train home and runs into trouble in this thought provoking short film about fear and guilt.
African Booty Scratcher
2007
as Isatu
Prom nears and things seem to be spiraling out of control for the typically composed Isatu. In this coming of age story, West African tradition confli...
Pariah
2007
as Mika
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and...
Behind the Lines
N/A
as Self
Documentary based on three New York Times bestselling books by historian Andrew Carroll and inspired by the stage play If All the Sky Were Paper, the ...
Killing Faith
N/A
as Sarah
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...
Killer Bee
N/A
A retiring assassin who takes on an underground criminal network after being tasked to kill the man she’s recently fallen in love with.
Killer Bee
N/A
Executive Producer
A retiring assassin who takes on an underground criminal network after being tasked to kill the man she’s recently fallen in love with.