Sonequa Martin-Green Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sonequa Martin-Green Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sonequa Chaunté Martin-Green (/səˈniË kwÉ™/; born March , ) is an

American actress and producer. She is best known for her television

roles as Michael Burnham, the main character in the web television

series Star Trek: Discovery, and as Sasha Williams on The Walking

Dead. Before that, she had starred in several independent films before

gaining her first recurring role as Courtney Wells on The Good Wife.

Later, she had recurring roles as Tamara in Once Upon a Time and

Rhonda in New Girl.Martin-Green was born in Russellville, Alabama. She

has one sister and three older half-sisters. She had initially planned

to become a psychologist before deciding to pursue a career in acting

when she was in the tenth grade. On her decision to become an actor,

she said, "I didn't know I was going to be an actor until I was . I

thought I was going to be a psychologist, which is interesting because

it's very similar to acting. I was fascinated with human behavior and

why people do what they do. I was in the middle of rehearsal in th

grade when I had this epiphany. And so I got my theatre degree from

the University of Alabama."After graduating from the University of

Alabama in with a degree in theatre, she relocated to New York City

where she and her husband, Kenric, lived for five years before moving

to California.While known primarily for her television roles, Sonequa

Martin-Green made her film debut in . In , she played the lead role of

Tosha Spinner in Toe to Toe opposite Louisa Krause, the fiercely

determined scholarship student who seeks to build a brighter future

outside of Anacostia and away from one of Washington's poorest

neighborhoods. The film focuses on her friendship and rivalry with

Jessie (Louisa Krause), a privileged girl from Bethesda whose

promiscuous tendencies threaten to become her undoing. They both

strive to gain a better understanding of one another's plight as

society threatens to drive them ever farther apart. The film received

generally positive reviews, with Martin-Green's performance receiving

critical acclaim, even from the film's detractors. In November , it

was announced Martin-Green would star in The Outside Story, opposite

Brian Tyree Henry, directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
Sonequa Martin-Green Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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