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Danai Gurira

American Actress

Born: Feb 14, 1978

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I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe. Danai Gurira

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I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision. I find that so fueling creatively because, in telling those stories, you use everything you've got. You come away with battle scars. It's gratifying and invigorating. Danai Gurira

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We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept. Danai Gurira

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I've always been attracted to action stuff. Danai Gurira

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I've always been extremely physically active. Danai Gurira

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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! Danai Gurira

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I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama. Danai Gurira

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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. Danai Gurira

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I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.' Danai Gurira

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I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, 'You must tell me,' I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long - and joyful! - of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out. Danai Gurira

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You have to remember that you are part of a craft, and you are constantly building your craft. Ultimately, we are artists, so it comes from us. And I think the tricky thing about being an actor is that we're looking for someone else to give us something... Thinking like an artist and thinking like an out-of-work actor are two different things. Danai Gurira

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I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa. Danai Gurira

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Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience? Danai Gurira

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I'm a child of academics. Danai Gurira

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I'm a storyteller. I'm always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to write the story I believe in, I will write it. If I've been offered to act in a story that I truly believe in, I will happily do that, but I'm a storyteller. That's something I'm so thankful for. Danai Gurira

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I grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. And I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I felt that I was kind of this outspoken girl, I was considered. I was a girl who talked a lot and didn't think my voice had any less value than anyone around me. Apparently, that was strange. Danai Gurira

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I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source. Danai Gurira

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