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Teyonah Parris
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Teyonah Parris (/tiˈɒnə/ tee-ON-ə) is an American actress. Her first prominent career role was playing secretary Dawn Chambers in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and starring in the 2014 independent film Dear White People. Since that, Parris starred in Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq, in US soap opera Empire and in Academy-nominated film If Beale Street Could Talk. In 2021, Parris portrayed an adult Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series WandaVision. She will reprise the role in The Marvels, scheduled to be released in 2023. Parris has won two Black Reel Awards and received nominations at Screen Actors Guild Awards and NAACP Image Awards.
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Matchbox the Movie
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels
Dashing Through the Snow
The Marvels
They Cloned Tyrone
Candyman
The Photograph
Charm City Kings
Point Blank
If Beale Street Could Talk
Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
Chi-Raq
Five Nights in Maine
Where Children Play
Dear White People
They Came Together
A Picture of You- TUTurpentine
- RURunning