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Teyonah Parris (born September 22, 1987 in Hopkins, South Carolina) is an American actress.

Parris is best known for her role in the AMC series Mad Men as Dawn Chambers, the only black person working at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. She later appeared in the Starz series Survivor's Remorse and FOX's Empire.

Parris has also appeared in films, notably Lysistrata in Spike Lee's 2015 revisionist take on the play of the same name, Chi-Raq, and the James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk. She also originated the role of Coco in the film Dear White People, later succeeded by Antoinette Robertson in Netflix's series continuation.

In 2021, Parris portrayed Marvel Comics superhero Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe-set Disney+ series WandaVision, succeeding Akira Akbar, who portrayed the character as a child in 2019's Captain Marvel. She later reprised the role in the Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels.


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