Top 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Danai Gurira
1. Danai was born in Grinnell, Iowa in the United States
2. She was born in 1978 on Valentines day
3. At 5 years old Danai and her family moved back to Harare after Zimbabwe gained independence
4. Danai is the youngest of four siblings
5. Danai’s mother is a university librarian
6. Her father is a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin
7. Growing up Danai was a swimmer, tennis player and hockey player
8. She joined a Children’s Performing Arts workshop when she was 13
9. Danai went to the Dominican Convent in Harare for high school
10. She went back to the United states of America after high school to study at Macalester College
11. She studied Pschycology
12. She also has a MFA in acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
13. She started writing plays because she needed monologues to audition with
14. Danai is a big fan of Western playwrights
15. In 2006 Danai won an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for writing
16. Danai also has a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress for off-Broadway play In the Continuum
17. Danai starred in the 2007 film The Visitor.
18. In 2009 Danai debuted on Broadway in August Wilson play Joe Turners Come and Gone
19. She appeared on HBO dram series Treme
20. She joined the record breaking series The Walking Dead in its 3rd season
