Teyonah Parris Bio, Age, Height, Networth, Engagement, Hairstyles, Movies

Teyonah Parris Biography| Teyonah Parris Actress

Teyonah Parris is an American actress who began her career playing a repetitive role as Dawn Chambers in Mad Men, before her debut in Dear White People in the 2014 independent film.

As per the sources, Teyonah Parris is not from a rich family with the lavish lifestyle though she has currently due to her stardom in Hollywood. Teyonah recalls her past where she had to share a room with her 12-year-old cousin sleeping in a bunk bed as she had no money to stay alone in New York.

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Well, the context has changed in her life now where the unknown Teyonah Parris is a Hollywood Star. Her past is completely in the shade as she is reluctant giving out her personal information. However, after becoming a celebrity, it is still hard for the media and paparazzi to know her personal information.

Her relationship status is unknown whether she is single or is having an affair. Her ring finger is seen vacant therefore, it is for sure that she is not engaged or married.Parris was raised in Hopkins, South Carolina, where she attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, before she later attended and graduated from the Juilliard School. She made her television debut in 2010, with guest starring role on The Good Wife. In 2012, she was cast in a recurring role as Dawn Chambers in the AMC drama series, Mad Men. She played the first major African American character on Mad Men.

In 2014, Parris had her breakthrough role in the independent film Dear White People. Later in that year, Parris began starring in the Starz comedy series, Survivor’s Remorse. In 2015, Parris went to star in the satirical drama film Chi-Raq directed by Spike Lee. She received her first NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture nomination for this film. She played the leading role in Where Children Play directed by Leila Djansi, and starred alongside David Oyelowo in Five Nights in Maine. Later in 2015, she played R&B/Jazz singer Miki Howard in the biopic The Miki Howard Story.

In 2016, Parris was cast as the lead character in the period drama film Buffalo Soldier Girl about a woman who, disguised as a man, enlisted and fought with the African American Post Civil War era as a Buffalo Soldier. In 2017, she had a recurring role on the Fox prime time soap opera Empire playing Detective Pamela Rose. In early 2018, Parris was cast in a leading role on the CBS drama pilot Murder.  Also that year, she co-starred in If Beale Street Could Talk, a drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins.[ Parris will be playing the adult version of Monica Rambeau from the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel in the Disney+ upcoming series WandaVision.

Teyonah Parris Age | Nationality | Ethnicity| Education

Teyonah Parris was born September 22, 1985, in South Carolina United States, holds an American nationality and belongs to African ethnicity. She is 31 years of age as of 2019. She attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities before she later attended and graduated from the Juilliard School.

Teyonah Parris Parents | Siblings

She is one of the celebrities that keep their lives private and away from the public, by that,no information is yet released to us about her family, parents, siblings and other background matters. Information about her family background and early life is far from the media.

Teyonah Parris Husband | Dating| Engagement

Teyonah has been resistant to disclose much about her dating life so she ended up once saying that she is taking her own time to know herself more and said, that she was really busy and grateful for it and by that she calls it dating. She clarified that she is not dating anyone seriously but in fact is spending more time on herself.

She has opted to keep her personal life under lock and is successful in doing so as the news of her boyfriend has not broadcast-ed in the media.We as her fans hope she let’s out every detail for the sake of her fans later in time especially and who she hooks up with.

Teyonah Parris Height And Weight | Body Facts

She is a cute amazing black -American who has black hair and brown eyes.In addition to that, Parris stands at a decent lovable height of 5 feet and 5 inches and is not left out in her matching bodyweight even for on-screen purposes. More to that her body measurements including breast size, waist size, and hips size are unavailable but will soon be updated as they are still under review.

Teyonah Parris Networth

She has earned the most prominent part of her net worth from her career as an actress. Moreover, she added some amount of money from her 2014 American TV series and film screen and now as of 2019, Teyonah Parris has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

Teyonah Parris Natural Hair| Hairstyles| Hair Type | Braids

She has been one of our naturalist hair crushes over the past few years as she is one in a million in those who slay on their hairstyles every time when it comes to rocking her natural hair. Teyonah rocking her natural hair on the red carpet and in magazines is a breath of fresh air for us, representing for the natural hair community not forgetting her gorgeous smile.

Teyonah Parris Chiraq

The girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) of a Chicago gang leader (Nick Cannon) persuades other frustrated women to abstain from sex until their men agree to end the senseless cycle of violence. In 2015, Parris went to star in the drama which was directed by Spike Lee.

She received her first NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture nomination for this film. She played the leading role in Where Children Play directed by Leila Djansi and starred alongside David Oyelowo in Five Nights in Maine.

Teyonah Parris Dear White People

In this drama-comedy shows, a campus tradition war between blacks and whites at a  white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party. She portrays Colandera “Coco” Conners in the film.

It is written, directed and co-produced by Justin Simien and it focuses on rising racial tensions at a fiction, prestigious Ivy League college from the perspective of several black students. It stars others as Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Brandon P. Bell, Kyle Gallner, Brittany Curran, Marque Richardson and Dennis Haysbert.

Teyonah Parris Miki Howard

Teyonah Parris in 2016 starred as R&B songstress Miki Howard in the new TV One biopic, “Love Under New Management.

Teyonah Parris Empire

In 2017, she had a recurring role on the Fox soap opera Empire playing Detective Pamela Rose a New York police detective investigating the attempted murder of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard). Rose is a delightful beauty who is quick to haze  the line between personal and professional upon her first encounter with one of the Lyons.

Teyonah Parris Movies And Tv Shows

She has appeared in great movies such as Dear White People in 2014 as Coco, They came together as Wadu, Five nights in Mane as Penelope, Chi Iraq as Lysistrata, 90 days as Jessica If Beale Street Could Talk as Ernestine(2018), The photograph to be released later in 2020.

In television shows she has had a major debut in The Goodwife in 2010 as Melinda Gossett, Madmen in 2012-2015 as Dawn Chambers, CSI: Crime Investigation as Karen Branston, Survivor’s Remorse as Missy Vaughn, Empire in 2017 as Detective Pamela Roseand in 2018 she appeared in Murder as Det. Ayana Lake.

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