Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris

'Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris' (qv) is an LA-based actor, screenwriter, and playwright. She is known for Room 104, Sharp Objects, Advantageous, and The Good Wife. She played the female lead opposite Sterling K. Brown in Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2, & 3 at Mark Taper Forum. She won 6 Best Actor 'Awards' (qv) for her work in the widely acclaimed, The Bravest, The Boldest (Sundance Film Festival).Her first feature screenplay, AFTER, won Best Screenplay at the 2020 New Faces New Voices Int'l Film Festival and the 2020 BMGF Int'l Film; and was a Finalist in the 2020 Pasadena Int'l Film Festival Screenplay Competition and the 2018 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition.Her first full-length play, "Rapture", is a finalist for a 2020 SPACE on Ryder Farm residency.Sameerah attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Cultural Anthropology and Theatre.::olh