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- Queen Sugar centers on the lives of three siblings in rural Louisiana (Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, and Kofi Siriboe) who must deal with the aftermath of their father's sudden death and decide the fate of his 800-acre sugarcane farm.
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Sep 27, 2022 · The OWN drama “Queen Sugar” made its mark on TV thanks to creator Ava DuVernay’s decision to only hire women to direct the show, now in its seventh and final season. Variety spoke to all 42 ...
- Angelique Jackson
Main cast. Rutina Wesley as Nova Bordelon, the eldest Bordelon child. She is a journalist, activist and healer in New Orleans. Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charlotte "Charley" Bordelon West, the second Bordelon child. She was conceived when their father Ernest moved west and married a white woman.
- Rutina Wesley
- Dawn-Lyen Gardner
- Kofi Siriboe
- Omar Dorsey
- Tina Lifford
TV actress Rutina Wesley stars as the journalist and activist Nova Bordelon on the show. She is also a herbal healer, who inherits her father’s farm along with her brother and sister. You might recognize Wesley as Tara Thornton from the hit TV series True Blood. Rutina has had a strong background in acting since her childhood — being born to perfor...
Gardner essays the role of Charley Bordelon-West in ‘Queen Sugar’, the savvy wife and manager of her NBA player husband. Charley relocates to Louisiana after her father’s death to maintain his failing sugarcane farm. Dawn-Lyen Gardner has been acting in the professional domain since she was nine years old, after a family friend, who was a casting d...
Kofi Siriobe plays Ralph Angel Bordelon in the series, the Bordelon brother and father of a six-year-old son, and has recently been released from prison. A first-generation American with origins from West Africa, Kofi is the great-grandson of a highly respected king in Juaben, Ashanti of Ghana. His brothers Kwame Boateng and Kwesi Boakye are also a...
Famed star Omar Dorsey essays the role of Hollywood Desonier in ‘Queen Sugar’. Dorsey has starred in blockbuster films like ‘The Blind Side’, ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Selma’. In a career spanning two decades, he has guest-starred in several television shows like ‘ER’, ‘The Shield’, ‘The Mentalist’, ‘NCIS’, ‘Rizzoli & Isles’, ‘Ray Donovan’ etc.
Actress and playwright Tina Lifford plays the role of Violet Bordelon in ‘Queen Sugar’. Lifford is best known for her leading role as Joan Mosley in the Fox drama series ‘South Central’. She later starred in the NBC drama ‘Parenthood’. She has also acted in films like ‘Blood Work’, ‘Grand Canyon’ and ‘Hostage’. The series also stars Nicholas L Ashe...
- Sayantani Nath
Learn more about the full cast of Queen Sugar with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide.
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Queen Sugar: Created by Ava DuVernay. With Rutina Wesley, Kofi Siriboe, Omar J. Dorsey, Nicholas L. Ashe. Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
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Nov 13, 2022 · Sunday Morning. "Queen Sugar": A TV landmark for women directors. By David Morgan. November 13, 2022 / 10:15 AM EST / CBS News. In its seven seasons, the TV series "Queen Sugar" has explored...
Nov 29, 2022 · As of 2015, when DuVernay began plotting out “Queen Sugar,” just 17 percent of television episodes were directed by women, and of that total, only three percent were women of color.
