Prolific video essayist Kevin B. Lee (we’ve covered him before) put a spotlight on Barry Jenkins two years before Moonlight was released and astonished the film world. "A white politician named Garrison says: "We abolished niggers. … She is known for roles in shows such as “Is’thunzi,” “Liberty,” and “Shuga.” In both 2018 and 2019 she received an International Emmy Award nomination for her role in “Is’thunzi.” Also in 2018, Mbedu was featured on the cover of Forbes Africa’s annual “Under 30” issue highlighting young African stars and leaders. Oscar-winning Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has chosen his next project—an Amazon one-hour limited drama titled The Underground Railroad.. On March 27, 2017, it was reported that Amazon Videohad given the production a script-to-series commitment. He just wrapped on the second season of David S. Goyer’s SyFy series “Krypton” and was last seen in Jez Butterworth’s Amazon series “Brittania” and in the ITV miniseries “Prime Suspect 1973.” He is repped by Hamilton Hodell in the UK and Anonymous Content in the US.“The Underground Railroad” chronicles young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Variety has learned … On June 5, 2018, it was announced that Amazon given the producti… She is repped by ICM and Creative Partners Group.Dillon currently has a recurring role in the upcoming BET series “First Wives Club” from Tracy Oliver. The one-hour original limited drama, a new take on the story of the underground railroad, hails from Oscar-winning Moonlight writer-director Barry Jenkins and … An often overly-analytical, sometimes sarcastic writer whose work can be seen on Syfy Wire. While stopped in Tennessee, Ridgeway's traveling party is attacked by some escaped slaves, who release Cora. Moonlight producers Plan B and Adele Romanski are re-teaming with the film’s writer/director Barry Jenkins for a new take on the famed underground railroad. North Carolina has recently decided to abolish slavery, using Ridgeway takes Cora back toward Georgia, detouring through Tennessee to return another slave to his master. She harbors a great deal of resentment towards Mabel for escaping, although readers later learn that her mother, in an attempt to return to Cora, actually died from a snake bite and never reached her. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. He is repped by CESD, GEM Entertainment Group, and Jago & AssociatesPierre is a graduate of the prestigious LAMDA in London. Jenkins’s latest project is an 11-episode drama series adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, which reimagines the networks that gave slaves an escape route from bondage on plantations in the American South as an actual subterranean train service. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.Jenkins will direct all 11 episodes of the one-hour series in what will be his first attempt at directing a TV series in its entirety. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.Jenkins will direct all 11 episodes of the one-hour series in what will be his first attempt at directing a TV series in its entirety. With Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Amber Gray, Thuso Mbedu. Production companies involved with the series were set to include Plan B Entertainment.