With a graceful presence and charismatic performances, actress and singer Amirah Vann has established herself as one of the industry’s most sought-after talents across film, television and stage. Her soulful singing voice and nuanced performance as Hattie Mae in Tyler Perry’s A Jazzman’s Blues earned her critical praise from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Time, among others. She also portrays the legendary Diahann Carroll alongside Regina King in Netflix’s Shirley, a biopic feature about trailblazing political icon Shirley Chisholm (King). 

Vann’s onscreen credits include roles in the Apple TV+ drama series The Changeling, Shondaland and ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, WGN’s Underground, Ava DuVernay and OWN’s Queen Sugar, USA’s Unsolved, Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard, Tracers, Miss Virginia and Netflix’s Emmy-winning action-adventure animated series Arcane, among many others. Stage credits include The Mountaintop, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Trouble in Mind and the Continuum Company’s productions of Pericles and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Florence, Italy, among others. For the latter, in addition to her role as Hermia, she is credited as a collaborating vocalist alongside Jon Batiste.

She is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Acting, Best Actor by the UJAMAA Black Theater and The ARTS Musical Theater Award.

A native of Far Rockaway, New York, Vann divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.