Trivia

Since April 2016, she has been an ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, encouraging clinical traits, having a three-time cancer surviving mother and a sister with breast cancer.

Has two children with husband Kenric Green: son Kenric Justin Green II (b. January 20, 2015) and daughter Saraiyah Chaunté Green (b. July 19, 2020).

Attended and graduated from the University of Alabama's Department of Theatre and Dance in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (2007).

She met future husband Kenric Green while doing a play with him in New Jersey.

Her parents, who had long been divorced, died of unrelated causes one day apart from each other: April 9, 2021 and April 10, 2021.

Pictured as the character Commander Michael Burnham on one of a set of 18 British commemorative postage stamps issued 13 November 2020, celebrating the "Star Trek" television and film franchise. Stamps were issued as 12 individual stamps, honoring captains and crew members; and 6 stamps in a single souvenir sheet, highlighting heroes and villains. All stamps were nondenominated and marked first class (76p on day of issue). Others honored by this set are William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, Jason Isaacs, Leonard Nimoy, Marina Sirtis, Alexander Siddig, Dominic Keating, Shazad Latif, Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Alice Eve, and Idris Elba.

She had initially planned to become a psychologist before deciding to pursue a career as an actress when she was in the tenth grade.

She was the salutatorian of her high school.

Along with Doug Jones and Emily Coutts, she is one of only three actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of Star Trek: Discovery (2017).

Best known for her television roles as Courtney Wells on The Good Wife (2009), and as Sasha Williams on The Walking Dead (2010).

She has co-starred with Chandler Riggs on the AMC television series The Walking Dead (2010).