Portrait of Nilaja Sun

Nilaja Sun

Acting

Biography

Nilaja Sun (born Nilaja Sun Gordon) is an actress, playwright, and a teaching artist from the Lower East Side in New York City. Sun has taught theatre in New York City public schools since 1998 and is best known for her award-winning one-person play, No Child... She is half Puerto Rican and half African-American.

Filmography

2021
The Snakes

as Heather

2016
BrainDead

as Breanna Burke

2014
Madam Secretary

as CIA Agent Juliet

2014
2013
Hairbrained

as Skidmore Moderator

2012
The Bourne Legacy

as Blue Lab Doctor

2012
Nature Calls

as Moses' Mother

2011
2010
Louie

as Woman on Phone

2010
Knight and Day

as Allison

2009
The Good Wife

as Divya Feldman

2009
The International

as Detective Gloria Hubbard

2006
30 Rock

as Irene