<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actress, playwright </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2004--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Danai Jekesai Gurira (born February 14, 1978) is an American actress and playwright, best known for her role as Michonne on The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama series, as the writer of the play Eclipsed, and as Okoye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise (beginning with Black Panther, and later reprising her role in Avengers: Infinity War). </P> <P> Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to Josephine Gurira, a college librarian, and Roger Gurira, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Grinnell College (both parents later joined the staff of University of Wisconsin--Platteville). Her parents moved to the United States from Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, in 1964 . She is the youngest of four siblings; Shingai and Choni are her sisters and Tare, her brother, is a chiropractor . Gurira lived in Grinnell until December 1983, when at age five she and her family moved back to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, after the country gained independence . </P>

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