‘Star Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Green Inks With IAG
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a continuation of a recent signing hot streak, Independent Artist Group has brought in Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of Star Trek: Discovery, who has made history in recent years as the first Black woman to topline a project in the Gene Roddenberry franchise, as well as its first Black female Starfleet Captain.
The Emmy-winning series, set 10 years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, stars Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, who comes to the USS Discovery as its science specialist, after being imprisoned for a mutiny above the USS Shenzhou.
The thesp is also a producer on the show created for Paramount+ (then CBS All Access) by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, which is expected to return for its fifth and final season next year.
Prior to Star Trek: Discovery, which shot her to a new level of stardom and made her one of the most in-demand actresses on television, Martin-Green was well known for her turn as zombie outbreak survivor Sasha Williams in Seasons 3 to 9 of AMC mega-hit The Walking Dead.
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