She acted in the play, "In the Continuum", by Danai Gurira with Nikkole Salter, at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Robert O'Hara was director.
She was born in Grinnell, Iowa but resided in her parents' native Zimbabwe from ages five to eighteen, when she returned to the United States to attend college.
[on preparing to play a sword-wielding zombie slayer in The Walking Dead (2010)] I do have some dings on my apartment wall from tricks I was attempting at home. I don't advise that.