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In 2016, Wesley was cast as the lead character Nova Bordelon in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Queen Sugar, produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. [17] In 2023, Wesley portrayed Maria in the HBO series The Last of Us. [18]
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...
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Apr 7, 2021 · Who plays Nova on Queen Sugar? Nova is played by actress Rutina Wesley. The OWN series follows the lives of the Bordelon siblings in rural Louisiana and Rutina's character Nova is the eldest of the children.
Visionary filmmaker Ava DuVernay and actress Rutina Wesley discuss the character Nova Bordelon from OWN's drama series 'Queen Sugar.'.
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