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Teyonah Parris

Teyonah Parris

Birthday: 1987-09-22 | Place of Birth: Hopkins, South Carolina, USA

Teyonah Parris (/tiˈɒnə/ tee-ON-ə; born September 22, 1987) is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were those of secretary Dawn Chambers in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and a starring role in the 2014 independent film Dear White People. Since then, she has appeared in the drama series Empire (2014), Spike Lee's crime comedy Chi-Raq (2015), and the drama film If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). In 2021, Parris starred in the horror film Candyman and began portraying Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with the Disney+ series WandaVision. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teyonah Parris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
Matchbox

as    Charmaine

2024
No Good Deed

as    Carla Owens

2024
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels

as    Self - 'Monica Rambeau'

2023
Dashing Through the Snow

as    Allison Garrick

2023
The Horror of Drakeula

as    Bride of Frankenstein

2023
The Marvels

as    Monica Rambeau

2023
They Cloned Tyrone

as    Yo-Yo

2021
Candyman

as    Brianna Cartwright

2021
WandaVision

as    Monica Rambeau / Geraldine

2020
The Photograph

as    Asia

2020
Charm City Kings

as    Mouse’s Mom

2019
Point Blank

as    Taryn

2018
If Beale Street Could Talk

as    Ernestine Rivers

2016
90 Days

as    Jessica

2016
Five Nights in Maine

as    Penelope

2015
Where Children Play

as    Bellissima Mccain

2015
Chi-Raq

as    Lysistrata

2014
Dear White People

as    Colandrea 'Coco' Conners

2014
A Picture of You

as    Mika

2014
Survivor's Remorse

as    Missy Vaughn