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Sonja Sohn

Highest Rated: 100% Baltimore Rising (2017)

Lowest Rated: 28% Step Up 2 the Streets (2008)

Birthday: May 9, 1964

Birthplace: Fort Benning, Georgia, USA

Sonja Sohn was a highly regarded poet and performance artist before she made her professional acting debut. A trailblazing veteran of the slam poetry movement, Sohn wrote and co-starred in "Slam" (1998), the shoe-string budget indie that kicked her career into high ascent. A subtle, memorable actress, Sohn was best known for her role as streetwise Detective Shakima "Kima" Griggs on the criminally underappreciated urban drama, "The Wire" (HBO, 2002-07).

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Highest rated movies

100% 82% Baltimore Rising Watchlist 91% 49% High Flying Bird Watchlist
90% Getting to Know You
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71% 52% Domain
Watchlist 59% 84% Slam Watchlist 44% 43% Breakwater Watchlist 43% 96% Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World Watchlist
28% 76% Step Up 2 the Streets
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67% The Missing Girl
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The Killing Zone
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Sonja Sohn

Sonja Sohn The Originals, Sonja Sohn, 'Wheel Inside the Wheel', Season 2, Ep. #6, 11/10/2014, ©KSITE Burn Notice, Sonja Sohn (L), Bruce Campbell (R), 'Over The Line', Season 6, Ep. #13, 11/15/2012, ©USA Burn Notice, Sonja Sohn (L), Bruce Campbell (R), 'Over The Line', Season 6, Ep. #13, 11/15/2012, ©USA SLAM, Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, 1998, (c)Trimark Pictures SLAM, Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, 1998. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sonja Sohn (L), Leslie Odom Jr. (R), 'American Tragedy', Season 15, Ep. #3, 10/02/2013, ©NBC SLAM, Sonja Sohn, 1998, (c)Trimark Pictures SLAM, from left: Sonja Sohn, Saul Williams, 1998, © Trimark HIGH FLYING BIRD, FROM LEFT: KYLE MACLACHLAN, SONJA SOHN, 2019. PH: PETER ANDREWS/© NETFLIX View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
44% 43% Breakwater Unknown (Character) - 2023
43% 96% Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World Unknown (Character) $5.3M 2023
No Score Yet 70% The Slow Hustle Director - 2021
91% 49% High Flying Bird Myra (Character) - 2019
71% 52% Domain Atlanta (Character) - 2017
100% 82% Baltimore Rising Director,
Executive Producer 		- 2017
No Score Yet 67% The Missing Girl Franny (Character) - 2015
28% 76% Step Up 2 the Streets Sarah (Character) $58.0M 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Industry Narrator - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Killing Zone Jennifer (Character) - 2003
90% No Score Yet Getting to Know You Lynn (Character) - 1999
59% 84% Slam Lauren Bell (Character),
Screenwriter 		$982.2K 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Work June (Character) - 1996

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 85% Will Trent Amanda Wagner (Character) 2023-2025
No Score Yet 63% The Chi Laverne (Character) 2021-2022
73% 86% Incorporated Unknown (Guest Star) 2017
84% 71% The Originals Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
93% 90% The Good Wife Sonya Rucker (Guest Star) 2010 2013
88% 95% Burn Notice Olivia Riley (Guest Star) 2012
76% 61% Body of Proof Detective Samantha Baker (Character) 2011-2012
79% 84% Brothers & Sisters Trish Evans (Guest Star) 2008-2009
94% 96% The Wire Det. Shakima "Kima" Greggs (Character) 2002-2004 2006 2008
No Score Yet 95% Cold Case Unknown (Guest Star) 2006-2007