Samira Wiley
American actress
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- Samira Wiley is an American actress.
- She also narrated the Netflix documentary Night on Earth (2020).
- Her parents, Christine and Dennis W.
- performing same-sex civil unions in 2007, prior to the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage.
- Wiley attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, D.
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WikipediaSamira Wiley is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Wiley also had starring roles in such films as The Sitter (2011), Nerve (2016), Detroit (2017), and Social Animals (2018). She also narrated the Netflix documentary Night on Earth (2020).
Wiley was raised in Washington, D.C. Her parents, Christine and Dennis W. Wiley, were co-pastors of the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ (CBUCC) until 2017; they have been described as "pillars of the LGBT religious community", as the CBUCC was the only Baptist church in D.C. performing same-sex civil unions in 2007, prior to the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage. She has two siblings, Aiyana Ma'at and Joshua Wiley.
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