Yolonda Ross- Talks The Importance Of Knowing The Business & Being A Student Of Life

Yolonda Ross (Actress/Writer/Director/Producer) is a two-time Film Independent Spirit Award nominee and Gotham Award winner for her feature film debut as a leading actress in HBO’s Stranger Inside and John Sayles’s Go For Sisters. Ross, a native of Omaha, Nebraska is recognized from her wide range of work including: the Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez film Lila & Eve, Angela Bassett’s Whitney, and Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher Story. In Television, she's worked on 24, Law and Order, and Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's, The Unit, in which Mr. Mamet wrote the part for her himself. The two teamed up again on HBO's Phil Spector. Ross has recurred as “Claudia” on How To Get Away With Murder, portrayed the memorable "Ms. Green", in the Baz Luhrmann/ Netflix series, The Get Down, and played a documentary filmmaker in HBO's Treme which inspired her to step behind the camera for her directorial debut, Breaking Night, which aired on VH1 Classics. Yolonda is also a member of New York's famed Labyrinth Theater Company. Her upcoming projects include, Out of Blue, opposite Patricia Clarkson, and Season 2 of the critically- acclaimed Lena Waithe Showtime drama, The Chi, where Yolonda is cast regular, “Jada Washington”. She will be making her feature film directorial debut with her romantic drama, Scenes From Our Marriage, which was chosen for Film Independent’s 2018 Fast Track Lab.