Bria Samoné Henderson

Personal context

Summary

Bria Samoné Henderson is an actor known for playing Dr. Jordan Allen in The Good Doctor and Margaret Sloan-Hunter in Mrs. America. Her work includes confident, complex women, and she has discussed the limited range of roles offered to plus-size black women. For her MFA thesis, she created a solo performance about beauty standards and body image affecting big black women. Henderson has described herself as an activist who speaks out and has taught girls in juvenile detention to write plays; no public partisan campaigning or political affiliations are on record.