EXCLUSIVE: Ayesha Harris has signed with Progressive Artists for illustration.
Harris broke out in 2023 as one of many business’s outstanding rising LGBTQ+ voices. She recurred within the nine-time Emmy-nominated Amazon Prime miniseries Daisy Jones and the Six, reverse Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, and Suki Waterhouse. Within the sequence, Harris performs Bernie, a disc jockey in New York’s underground homosexual disco scene, and the love curiosity of Simone Jackson (Nabiyah Be). Additionally in 2023, Harris starred alongside Kim Cattrall and Miss Benny in Netflix’s queer drama-comedy Glamorous. Different tv credit embrace This Is Us, L Phrase: Era Q, Abbott Elementary and Good Ladies.
Harris made her characteristic movie debut within the Samuel Goldwyn Movies anthology Inform It Like a Girl, which landed Diane Warren her 14th Academy Award nom for Greatest Unique Track. She co-stars within the movie’s seventh phase, “Pepcy and Kim”, reverse Jennifer Hudson, directed by Taraji P. Henson.
Subsequent up, Harris will star alongside Lil Rel Howery and Rainn Wilson within the paramedic action-comedy Code 3, from author/director Christopher Leone, Wayfarer Studios, and Circle of Confusion.
Harris continues to be repped by MRK MGMT and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
