Samira Wiley

Samira Wiley stars as Moira on Hulu’s prestige drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a role that earned her an Emmy® Award, four Emmy nominations, an NAACP Image Award nomination and four SAG Award nominations. She just wrapped production on the action-adventure series “Atomic” for Sky in Morocco.

In 2022, Wiley headlined the acclaimed “Blues for an Alabama Sky” at the National Theatre in London. She is also well known for her SAG Award-winning performance as inmate Poussey on “Orange Is the New Black.” Wiley’s past film credits include “Breaking News in Yuba County,” “Detroit,” “Social Animals,” “37,” “Nerve,” “Rob the Mob,” “Being Flynn,” “The Sitter” and “Vault.”

Additional television credits include HBO’s “Equal” Netflix’s “Love, Death & Robots,” a starring role on “Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on TV,” and recurring roles on “You’re the Worst” and “Unforgettable.” Wiley also starred in the off-Broadway play “Daphne’s Dive,” multiple productions with “Moliere in the Park” in Brooklyn, and the Theatre of War’s production of “Antigone in Ferguson.” She recently co-produced the Broadway play “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”

Wiley is a graduate of The Juilliard School.