Yolonda Ross
Yolonda is a two-time Film Independent Spirit Award nominee and Gotham Award winner for her feature film debut as a leading actress in HBO’s Stranger Inside and John Sayles’s Go For Sisters. Ross, a native of Omaha, Nebraska is recognized from her wide range of work including: Angela Bassett’s Whitney, and Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher Story.
In Television, she's worked on Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's, The Unit. The two teamed up again on HBO's Phil Spector. Ross has recurred as “Claudia” on How To Get Away With Murder, portrayed the memorable "Ms. Green", in the Baz Luhrmann/ Netflix series, The Get Down, and played a documentary filmmaker in HBO's Treme which inspired her to step behind the camera for her directorial debut, Breaking Night, which aired on VH1 Classics.
Ross is also a member of New York's famed Labyrinth Theater Company. Yolonda is featured in the PBS American Masters episode How it Feels To Be Free, about black female trailblazers and as series regular, “Jada Washington” in season four of the critically-acclaimed Lena Waithe Showtime drama The Chi.. Yolonda will be making her feature film directorial debut with her romantic drama, Scenes From Our Marriage, which was chosen for Film Independent’s, Fast Track & Directors’ Lab, Cannes Marche’ du Film Producers Workshop and the Seattle Film Summit’s, Prestige Select Film. This will be her second project with the Seattle Film Summit after starring in Desmond’s Not Here Anymore along side S.Epatha Merckerson.