ACTOR

Samira Wiley

1987 - Today

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Samira Denise Wiley (born April 15, 1987) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Wiley also had starring roles in such films as The Sitter (2011), Nerve (2016), Detroit (2017), and Social Animals (2018). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samira Wiley has received more than 6,118,971 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Samira Wiley is the 9,945th most popular actor (down from 9,268th in 2019), the 14,531st most popular biography from United States (down from 13,499th in 2019) and the 4,660th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Samira Wiley ranks 9,945 out of 13,578. Before her are Shinobu Terajima, Morfydd Clark, Angélica, Anne Ramsay, Andy On, and Marion Byron. After her are Jamie Luner, Nicole Sullivan, Daran Norris, Robert Gant, Fannie Ward, and Maiara Walsh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Samira Wiley ranks 355. Before her are Kristof Van Hout, Coke, Mame Biram Diouf, Ahmed Elmohamady, Becky Lynch, and Mikhail Kukushkin. After her are Willy Aubameyang, Charlotte Kalla, Yu Kobayashi, McDonald Mariga, Jérémy Chardy, and Anele Ngcongca.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samira Wiley ranks 14,531 out of 20,380. Before her are Anne Ramsay (1960), Misty Stone (1986), Andy On (1977), Chad Hedrick (1977), Maryon Pittman Allen (1925), and Marion Byron (1911). After her are Jamie Luner (1971), Nicole Sullivan (1970), Daran Norris (1964), Robert Gant (1968), Fannie Ward (1872), and Jad Fair (1954).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Samira Wiley ranks 4,660. Before her are Bob Peterson (1961), Julia Sweeney (1959), Melissa Sagemiller (1974), Anne Ramsay (1960), Andy On (1977), and Marion Byron (1911). After her are Jamie Luner (1971), Nicole Sullivan (1970), Daran Norris (1964), Robert Gant (1968), Fannie Ward (1872), and Maiara Walsh (1988).

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Television and Movie Roles

Nerve
Azhar
Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.
Jun 27o 20167 / 10
The Handmaid's Tale
Moira Strand
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
8.179 / 10
Night on Earth
Self - Narrator (voice)
This nature series’ new technology lifts night’s veil to reveal the hidden lives of the world’s creatures, from lions on the hunt to bats on the wing.
7.4 / 10