Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles in the drama film American Violet , the drama Shame , which is about a mans sexual addiction, and the biographical sports drama 42 . From September 2013 to April 2016, she starred in the Fox fantasy series Sleepy Hollow.

Beharie was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. She attended Orangeburg Wilkinson High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and is a 2003 graduate of the South Carolina Governors School for the Arts amp Humanities, a public residential high school in Greenville. Beharie was then accepted into Juilliard School, a performing arts conservatory . She was awarded a Shakespeare scholarship and trained in England.

Source: Wikipedia