Danai Gurira: Breaking The Rules of Old, Dead White Guys | Breaking Big | OZY

OZY Media’s third prime-time television show, Breaking Big, explores the unexpected journeys to success of some of the world’s most influential stars. This week we turn the camera on actress Danai Jekesai Gurira. Best known as Michonne in The Walking Dead and, most recently, as Okoye in the blockbuster hit Black Panther, Gurira sees her success as an opportunity to tell untold stories of African women and of her homeland, Zimbabwe.

When Gurira — who was born in Iowa but spent most of her childhood in Zimbabwe — landed back in the United States to study psychology in college, she was on a decidedly academic track. But her inner storyteller yearned for more — so she researched master’s programs in fine arts, earning herself a spot at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. This was where she had to go “to learn all the rules,” she says, “so I’d know how to break them.”
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