Aja Naomi King

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Aja Naomi King (born January 11, 1985) is an American actress. She began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred as Cassandra Kopelson in the short-lived CW medical comedy-drama, Emily Owens, M.D. (2012–13).

In 2014, King began starring as Michaela Pratt in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder, for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2015. She also has starred in the independent movies Four (2012) and Reversion (2015). In 2016 she appeared in the historical film The Birth of a Nation as Cherry Turner.

Actress Aja Naomi King attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 8th annual Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on November 12, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Actress Aja Naomi King attends the Academy Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting Awards & Live Read, in Beverly Hills, California November 3, 2016.

Aja Naomi King is seen arriving at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Show.

Honoree Aja Naomi King attends the 23rd Annual ELLE Women In Hollywood Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on October 24, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

Actor Aja Naomi King attend Variety's 10 To Watch Brunch and Panel during the Hamptons International Film Festival 2016 at Nick & Toni's on October 8, 2016 in East Hampton, New York.

Actress Aja Naomi King attends the premiere of Fox Searchlight Pictures' "The Birth of a Nation" at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on September 21, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

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1st annual Marie Claire Young Women's Honors at Marina del Rey Marriott on November 19, 2016 in Marina del Rey, California

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Aja is too pretty for words!

 

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GQ Men of the Year Awards 2016 in Los Angeles Dec 8 2016

 

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Vanity Fair March 2017: The Hollywood Issue by Annie Leibovitz.

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Aja Naomi King
6 films, including The Birth of a Nation (2016).

Aja Naomi King’s movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker’s blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep. After an assortment of credits in film (“Positive Polly” in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime-time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland’s How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis. Shondaland TV is not so much a place as a quantum state in which dialogue, events, character reversals, and shocking twists occur at speeds unknown to mundane humankind. King’s Michaela Pratt has been in the mad thick of it for three seasons, and the part of Cherry required a rapid deceleration and divestment of contemporary traits to fit seamlessly into the time, place, and tragic situation of southern slavery. This King did so artfully that you don’t see the art, only an eloquent act of being.

 

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^she looks amazing in those VF shots!

 

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Aja Naomi King at Teen Vogue Summit, June 1, 2018

Aja Naomi King and Laura Harrier pose together while attending the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit on Friday (June 1) at The New School in New York City.

The actresses were joined by Orange Is the New Black‘s Diane Guerrero and Dear White People‘s Logan Browning on a discussion about representation in Hollywood.

“I’m close to activism because I’m a black woman in America,” Laura, who is best known for her work in Spider-Man: Homecoming, said.

“It’s the little things when you have a moment to do something that feels more real or natural,” Aja added. She cited an example from How to Get Away with Murder when her character Michaela Pratt put a head wrap on before going to bed. “If I’m going to go to bed, I wanna put a head wrap on because that’s what I would do, especially if I’m comfortable in my relationship with someone. And for a lot of women online that was a big deal to them, to see that, because it feels honest. You’re seeing something that reflects yourself.”

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L'Oreal Paris Elseve Extraordinary Oil S/S 2018

Photographer: Baard Lunde
Stylist: Mika Mizutani
Hair: Stephane Lancien
Make-up: Charlotte Willer
Models: Aja Naomi King, Bianca Balti, Doutzen Kroes and Ming Xi


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