Zimbabwe

Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team

Movies & TV Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Danai Gurira, raised in Zimbabwe, is known as Okoye in Black Panther and Michonne in The Walking Dead. She is also a Tony-nominated playwright whose play Eclipsed, about women in the Liberian civil war, reached Broadway in 2016 with Lupita Nyong'o.

For thirty years her name was misspelt in the credits. Thandiwe Newton took back the “w”

Celebrity Buzz For thirty years her name was misspelt in the credits. Thandiwe Newton took back the “w” Thandiwe Newton, the British actress with a Zimbabwean mother, was credited as "Thandie" for most of her career. In 2021 she reclaimed the correct spelling of her Zulu name. She won an Emmy in 2018 for her role as Maeve in Westworld.