Saidah Arrika Ekulona is an Award-winning theatre, television, and film actress. She is best known for The Taking of Pelham 1:23, Two Lovers, Righteous Kill, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Other film credits include Honeyglue, The Den, The Rebound, Uncertainty, The Metrosexual, Body/Antibody, Alfie, Saving Face, Happy Accidents.

Television credits include Val Crawford on Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally, Mayor Janice Lomax on ABC’s General Hospital, and Court Officer Rita on CBS’ Queens Supreme.

Theatre credits include Kay/Others in Well (Longacre Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Actor B in Motherhood Out Loud (59E59 Theater), Montano/Bianca in Othello (Skirball Center), Lotty in Unconditional (LuEsther Hall), Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Theatre), Allison/Others in Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Peter Jay Sharp Theatre), Eunice Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire (N.Y. Theatre Workshop), and her Lucille Lortel/OBIE Award-winning performance as Mama Nadi in Ruined (N.Y.C. Center Stage).