Danai Gurira
Zimbabwean-American actress
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| 2025 | Nominated for Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live |
| 2025 | Gurira was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live and won the Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation |
| 2025 | Nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series and won for Best Television Presentation for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live |
| February 2024 | The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premiered, consisting of six episodes, with Gurira receiving a Black Reel Television award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. |
| 2023 | Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever |
| 2023 | Performs in Shakespeare's 'Richard III' for Great Performances, Season 50 |
| 2023 | Danai Gurira appeared as a playable character (DLC) in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, providing her voice and likeness as Michonne |
| May 2023 | Gurira played Richard III in a Shakespeare in the Park production. |
| May 2023 | Played Richard III in a Shakespeare in the Park production. |
| 2022 | Danai Gurira performs as Richard III in Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater |
| 2022 | Reprises her role as Michonne in a special appearance in The Walking Dead and appears in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Okoye. |
| 2022 | Hosted the Global Citizen Festival in Ghana, continuing her work as a Global Citizen ambassador. |
| 2022 | Returned as Okoye in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', following the passing of Chadwick Boseman |
| July 2022 | Announced a spin-off mini-series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live at San Diego Comic-Con, which she co-created, produced, and wrote the fourth episode for. |
| 2021 | Voices Okoye in Marvel's animated series 'What If...?', appearing in 3 episodes |
| 2020 | Danai Gurira's likeness was featured in the video game Fortnite Battle Royale as the character Michonne |
| March 2020 | Gurira aired her final episode of The Walking Dead, titled 'What We Become', after appearing in 96 episodes of the show. |
| 2019 | Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on a Television Series for The Walking Dead |
| 2019 | Reprised her role as Okoye in 'Avengers: Endgame', continuing her significant Marvel character arc |
| 2019 | Gurira won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Black Panther |
| February 2019 | Reports emerged about her planned exit from The Walking Dead television series. |
| 2018 | Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther and the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018 |
| 2018 | Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther |
| 2018 | Gurira won the People's Choice Award for The Action Movie Star of 2018 for Black Panther |
| 2018 | Gurira won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther and the People's Choice Award for Action Movie Star of 2018 |
| December 2 2018 | Announced as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, dedicated to promoting gender equality and women's rights. |
| February 2018 | Gurira was cast as General Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther film, receiving critical acclaim and winning a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. |
| 2017 | Played Afeni Shakur in the biographical film 'All Eyez on Me' about rapper Tupac Shakur |
| 2017 | Voices Michonne in a 'Robot Chicken' special episode about The Walking Dead |
| 2016 | Significant year for Gurira with multiple award nominations and wins, including Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for The Walking Dead, Lilly Awards and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Playwriting for Eclipsed, and Black Girls Rock! Star Power Celebrant award |
| 2016 | Authored 'Power of Women: Lupita Nyong'o', published by DKC / O&M in New York. |
| 2016 | Became a Global Citizen ambassador, beginning partnership with the organization on various campaigns and festivals. |
| 2016 | Wrote the play 'Familiar', documented in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Division. |
| 2016 | Founded Love Our Girls, a non-profit organization aimed at highlighting challenges specifically affecting women worldwide. Also partnered with Johnson & Johnson in the fight against HIV/AIDS. |
| 2016 | Eclipsed moved to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, becoming the first play to premiere on Broadway with an all-female and all-black cast and creative team. Gurira received the Sam Norkin Award for Eclipsed and Familiar from the Drama Desk Awards. |
| 2016 | Gurira was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play with Eclipsed, and won multiple awards including the Lilly Awards for Outstanding Playwriting, Drama Desk Award's Sam Norkin Award, TCG Gala Honoree, and ImageNation Revolution Award for Artistic Excellence |
| 2016 | Received the Sam Norkin Award from the Drama Desk Awards for her work on Eclipsed and Familiar, recognizing her insight and fresh voice in American theater. |
| 2016 | Eclipsed moved to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, becoming the first play to premiere on Broadway with an all-female and all-black cast and creative team. The play was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play and won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design. |
| 2015 | Signed an open letter initiated by the ONE Campaign, addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging focus on women's issues in leadership roles. |
| 2015 | Lupita Nyong'o starred in Gurira's play Eclipsed Off-Broadway at The Public Theater. |
| 2015 | Voiced the character Fury in the animated film 'Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast' |
| 2015 | Her play Eclipsed premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, starring Lupita Nyong'o and focusing on women's experiences during Liberia's civil wars. |
| January 2015 | Familiar, a play written by Gurira and directed by Rebecca Taichman, opened at Yale Repertory Theatre and later premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. |
| January 2015 | Her play Familiar opened at Yale Repertory Theatre, later premiering Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, exploring family, cultural identity, and first-generation American experiences. |
| 2014 | Gurira won the Black Reel Award for Best Actress for her role in Mother of George |
| 2014 | Gurira won the Black Reel Award for Best Actress for Mother of George |
| 2013 | Gurira won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing for The Convert and the Eyegore Awards' Best Ensemble Cast Award for The Walking Dead |
| 2013 | Portrayed Adenike Olumide Balogun in the film 'Mother of George' |
| 2013 | Wrote the play 'The Convert', published by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. |
| 2013 | Gurira won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing for The Convert and the Eyegore Awards Best Ensemble Cast Award for The Walking Dead |
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