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Danai Gurira Parents: Who Are Roger Gurira and Josephine Gurira?

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Roger and Josephine Gurira are the parents of Avengers actress Danai Gurira.

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The couple have four children together, including Danai Gurira.

Roger Gurira

Roger is a seasoned professor of Chemistry in Grinnell College. He hails from Zimbabwe.

Josephine Gurira

Josephine works as a college librarian. She had relocated with her husband and children from Zimbabwe to America as far back as 1954.

Who Is Danai Gurira?

Danai Gurira is an actress and playwright of American and Zimbabwean descent, best known for her role in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead.

Born in Grinnell, Iowa, on February 14, 1978, Gurira graduated from Dominican Convent High School.

She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Danai Gurira
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Gurira later obtained a Master of Fine Arts in acting from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Gurira received a Tony Award nomination for writing the Broadway play Eclipsed.

In addition to appearing in the movie For Coloured Girls, Gurira also taught acting and playwriting in Liberia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

In the MCU superhero movies Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame, Gurira starred as Okoye.

Gurira has also received numerous awards, including a Helen Hayes Award, an Obie Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.


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