Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Aunjanue L. Ellis-Taylor (/ˈɑːnʒənuː/; née Ellis; born February 21, 1969) is an American actress. She has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She has appeared in numerous films, including Men of Honor (2000), Undercover Brother (2002), Ray (2004), Freedomland (2006), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), The Help (2011), The Birth of a Nation (2016), and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Oracene Price in the sports drama King Richard (2021). She has since starred in The Color Purple (2023), Origin (2023), and Nickel Boys (2024). On television, Ellis had regular and recurring roles in the series High Incident (1996–1997), The Practice (1999), True Blood (2008), and The Mentalist (2010–2013). She also appeared in several television films, such as Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009), Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2013), and The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (2020), as well as the miniseries The Book of Negroes (2015) and series Quantico (2015–2017). She was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles in the miniseries When They See Us (2019) and Lovecraft Country (2021) series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: San Francisco, California, USA, 1969-02-21

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1		HBCU Honors	Self	0
2	1996	Girls Town	Nikki	61
3	1996	Ed's Next Move	Erica	43
4	1998	Side Streets	Brenda Boyce	64
5	1999	Desert Blue	Agent Summers	58
6	1999	In Too Deep	Denise	63
7	1999	A Map of the World	Dyshett	61
8	2000	Men of Honor	Jo	75
9	2000	The Opponent		51
10	2000	Disappearing Acts	Pam	62
11	2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Lulu	58
12	2001	John John in the Sky	Earlene	58
13	2002	Undercover Brother	Sistah Girl	59
14	2002	Lovely & Amazing	Lorraine	61
15	2004	Brother to Brother	Zora	50
16	2004	Ray	Mary Ann Fisher	75
17	2005	Perception	Vera	0
18	2006	Freedomland	Felicia	52
19	2007	Cover	Valerie Mass	52
20	2008	Racing for Time	Officer Baker	58
21	2008	The Prince of Motor City	Cora Neel	0
22	2008	The Express	Marie Davis	71
23	2009	Notorious	Sandy	69
24	2009	Motherhood	Sample Sale Friend	50
25	2009	The Hungry Ghosts	Nadia	10
26	2009	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story	Candy	78
27	2009	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3	Therese Garber	64
28	2010	I Love You Phillip Morris	Reba	64
29	2011	The Tested	Darraylynn Warren	30
30	2011	The Resident	Sydney	58
31	2011	Game of Death	Rachel	49
32	2011	The Help	Yule Mae Davis	82
33	2011	Money Matters	Pamela Matters	47
34	2012	Abducted: The Carlina White Story	Ann	77
35	2013	The Volunteer	Leigh	0
36	2014	Get on Up	Vicki Anderson	68
37	2014	Of Mind and Music	Una Vida	56
38	2016	The Birth of a Nation	Nancy Turner	66
39	2017	Romeo and Juliet in Harlem	Lady Capulet	0
40	2018	Pimp	Gloria May	62
41	2018	If Beale Street Could Talk	Mrs. Hunt	69
42	2019	Miss Virginia	Lorraine Townsend	82
43	2020	The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel	Mattie Moss Clark	77
44	2021	The Subject	Leslie	39
45	2021	King Richard	Oracene 'Brandy' Price	76
46	2023	Origin	Isabel Wilkerson	66
47	2023	The Color Purple	Mama	71
48	2024	The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat	Odette Henry	65
49	2024	The Deliverance	Rev Bernice James	60
50	2024	Exhibiting Forgiveness	Joyce	66
51	2024	Nickel Boys	Hattie	66
52		Liz Here Now	Liz Baxter	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1994	New York Undercover		71
3	1996	High Incident	Officer Leslie Joyner	78
4	1997	The Practice	Sharon Young	77
5	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Laura Chase	79
6	1999	Third Watch	Gail Moore	79
7	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Carmen Rivera	76
8	2002	MDs	Quinn Joyner	75
9	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
10	2004	The D.A.		0
11	2005	Jonny Zero		20
12	2005	Numb3rs		71
13	2005	E-Ring	Jocelyn Pierce	79
14	2006	Justice	Miranda Lee	70
15	2008	True Blood	Diane	76
16	2008	The Mentalist	Madeleine Hightower	84
17	2009	The Good Wife	Linda Underwood	76
18	2009	NCIS: Los Angeles	Michelle Hanna	75
19	2010	Blue Bloods	Sylvia Marshall	78
20	2012	Missing	Mary Dresden	62
21	2013	Sleepy Hollow	Lori Mills	74
22	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
23	2015	The Book of Negroes	Aminata Diallo	63
24	2015	Quantico	Miranda Shaw	65
25	2016	Designated Survivor	Eleanor Darby	71
26	2019	When They See Us	Sharonne Salaam	82
27	2020	Lovecraft Country	Hippolyta Freeman	72
28	2022	61st Street	Martha Roberts	67
29	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
30	2023	Justified: City Primeval	Carolyn	69
31		Lucky	Agent Billie Rand	0

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