N'Bushe Wright

Get N'Bushe Wright off the set darling! (1996)

N'Bushe Wright (* 20th September 1970 in New York City ) is an American actress .

Life

The father of the African American N'Bushe Wright was the jazz musician Suleiman-Marim Wright, her mother was a psychologist . Wright learned to dance at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center and at the Martha Graham School of Dance , and later studied acting with Stella Adler .

Wright made her debut in the award-winning 1992 drama Zebrahead . From 1992 to 1993 she starred in several episodes of the television series I'll Fly Away . In the drama Fresh (1994) she played the drug-addicted sister of the main character Michael Fresh ; Samuel L. Jackson played her father. In the horror film Blade (1998), in which she starred alongside Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson , she played the victim of a vampire and infected Dr. Karen Jenson , who supports Blade .

Wright took on one of the leading roles in the comedy Three Times Is Once Too Much (2000). She also played a leading role in the award-winning drama Civil Brand (2002). For her role in the mini television series Widows (2002) she was nominated for the Image Award in 2003 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1992: Zebrahead
• 1992–1993: I'll Fly Away (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1994: Fresh
• 1995: Dead Presidents
• 1996: New York Undercover (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 1996: Johns - The Hustlers of LA (Johns)
• 1997: Instructions to Murder ( Close to Danger , TV movie)
• 1997: Hands off, darling! (His and Hers)
• 1997: Squeeze
• 1997: A Woman Like That
• 1998: Blade
• 2000: three times is too many (3 strikes)
• 2001: UC: Undercover (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2002: Civil Fire
• 2002: Widows (miniseries, 4 episodes)
• 2004: Joy Road
• 2004: He Say… She Say… But What Does God Say?
• 2005: God's Forgotten House
• 2006: Restraining Order
• 2018: A Talent for Trouble

Web links

• N'Bushe Wright in the Internet Movie Database (English)