Biography

Amirah Vann (pronounced van-not vawn)

Amirah Vann is an Afro-Latina actress from Far Rockaway, NY best known for her role as Tegan Price in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder. A new medical drama for Fox, DOC, has announced Amirah as a series regular in the role of neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Gina Walker.

Born to a Puerto Rican mother and African-American father, Amirah grew up speaking both English and Spanish. Growing up in New York, she fell in love with the arts and went on to receive a BFA in Acting from Fordham University and her MFA from the NYU Tisch graduate acting program.

Most recently she was seen starring as Diahann Carroll in Shirley. As well as in Tyler Perry's A Jazzman's Blues where Vann's soulful singing voice, and nuanced performance as Hattie Mae earned her critical praise from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and TIME, among others. Amirah is also known for her roles in The Changeling, Underground, Queen Sugar, unsolved, Star Trek: Picard, Tracers, Miss Virginia, and as the voice of Sevika in Netflix's Emmy-winning action-adventure animated series Arcane, among many others.

Stage credits include numerous regional theatre performances by playwrights Christopher Durang, Katori Hall, Dominique Morisseau, Shakespeare among others.

Among her accolades, Vann is a NAACP Image Award Nominee, recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Acting, Best Actor by the UJAMAA Black Theater, and The ARTS Musical Theater Award.
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Her father is African-American and Mother is Puerto-Rican.

Has two daughters Nyla (b. February 2021) and Zoë (b. October 2024) with her long-time partner Patrick Oyeku.

In 2001 at the age of 21, she was awarded a $16,700 scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation in recognition of her promise and dedication to excellence in the performing arts.

Has one sister.