More Medavoy - Edwina Findley

Character: Helen
Year: 2023

Biography

Edwina Findley can currently be seen in the Amazon series, “The Power” and opposite Gemma Arterton and James Norton in the UK thriller, “Freegard”. Presently, she is filming the Shonda Rhimes'/Netflix limited series, “The Residence."

On the height of her final season of HBO’s Emmy nominated, critically acclaimed series TREME, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey enlisted Edwina to star in OWN network’s newest installment to primetime, IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG which premiered to record setting ratings and recently televised its 6th Season. Other television credits include: BLACK LIGHTNING (CW), FEAR OF THE WALKING DEAD (AMC), BLACK LIGHTNING (CW), CHICAGO MED (NBC), SHOTS FIRED (Fox), VEEP (HBO), and THE WIRE (HBO).

On the big screen, Edwina garnered critical acclaim for her role as in director Ava Duvernay’s award winning feature MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which stormed the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as the year’s breakout film. She was seen in the hit Warner Bros comedy feature with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, GET HARD, and the independent film FREE IN DEED which won the Venice Film Festivals’ Horizons Award for Best Film and Edwina garnered an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for her performance. A native of Washington, DC, Edwina is a graduate from the renowned Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the NYU Tisch Scholars Program.

Outside of her acting career, Edwina is a sought after motivational speaker and teacher; together she and her husband, Business Executive Kelvin Dickerson, are the Co-Founders of AbundantLifeU, a national organization empowering millennials to succeed personally and professionally.