Danai Gurira is a Zimbabwean-American actress who portrays Michonne Grimes in AMC's The Walking Dead and The Ones Who Live. Danai Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa to parents from Zimbabwe, when her father was teaching Chemistry at Grinnell College. When she was 5, the family moved back to Zimbabwe. She studied social psychology at Macalaster College, and received an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is the co-author of the play In the Continuum with Nikkole…
