N'Bushe Wright
- Actress
Beautiful N'Bushe Wright started out as a dancer, trained at the
prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of
Dance, but then switched to acting, enrolling at Stella Adler's studio.
Within a year, Wright was starring in Anthony Drazan's Zebrahead
(1992). That year, she won the recurring role of Claudia, a black civil
rights activist fighting for equal opportunities in education in the
acclaimed but short-lived NBC television drama I'll Fly Away. She
received positive reviews for her moving portrayal of the drug-addicted
older sister of the title protagonist in Boaz Yakin's Fresh (1994). The
following year, Wright played an idealistic Black Panther in the Hughes
Brothers Dead Presidents (1995). A native of New York City, she is the
daughter of jazz man Suleiman-Marim and a NYC Board of Education
psychologist. Wright attended the Manhattan High School for the
Performing Arts.
prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of
Dance, but then switched to acting, enrolling at Stella Adler's studio.
Within a year, Wright was starring in Anthony Drazan's Zebrahead
(1992). That year, she won the recurring role of Claudia, a black civil
rights activist fighting for equal opportunities in education in the
acclaimed but short-lived NBC television drama I'll Fly Away. She
received positive reviews for her moving portrayal of the drug-addicted
older sister of the title protagonist in Boaz Yakin's Fresh (1994). The
following year, Wright played an idealistic Black Panther in the Hughes
Brothers Dead Presidents (1995). A native of New York City, she is the
daughter of jazz man Suleiman-Marim and a NYC Board of Education
psychologist. Wright attended the Manhattan High School for the
Performing Arts.