Danai Gurira

Danai Jekesai Gurira is a Zimbabwean American actress and playwright, best known for her role as Michonne on The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama series.

Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to Josephine Gurira, a university librarian, and Roger Gurira, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of WisconsinPlatteville. Her parents came to the United States from Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, in 1964. She is the youngest of four siblings Shingai and Choni are her sisters and Tare, her brother, is a chiropractor. Gurira lived in Grinnell until December 1983, when at age five she and her family moved back to Harare, Zimbabwe, after the country gained independence.

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