The film had limited theatrical release on October 9, 2015. In 2015, King had her first the leading role in the science-fiction thriller Reversion.
King received her first NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance in series.
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The series premiered on September 25, 2014, with generally positive reviews from critics, and 14 million viewers. King plays the role of Michaela Pratt, one of the five lead students, alongside Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza. The series stars Viola Davis as a law professor Annalise Keating.
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In February 2014, she was cast as one of the main characters in the ABC legal thriller How to Get Away with Murder, produced by Shonda Rhimes. The series was canceled after a single season. In early 2014, King had a recurring role as Ali Henslee in the ABC medical drama series Black Box, starring Kelly Reilly. 2014–present: Breakthrough King in August 2014 The film was shot in 2013 but was released theatrically in the United States in 2015. In 2014, she had supporting role in the romantic comedy The Rewrite, starring Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei. She also appeared alongside Laverne Cox and Britne Oldford in the film 36 Saints. Along with her castmates, she won a Los Angeles Film Festival Award for Best Performance by Cast for her role in this movie.
She played Abigayle, the daughter of Wendell Pierce's character, in the independent drama Four, released on September 13, 2013. In 2013, King co-starred in two independent films. She later starred in the Amazon Studios comedy pilot The Onion Presents: The News. The series was canceled after a single season in 2013. Her big break came in 2012, when she was cast as new surgical intern Cassandra Kopelson and the series' primary antagonist, on the CW medical comedy-drama series Emily Owens, M.D. She made her feature film debut in the 2011 independent film Damsels in Distress, as a minor character. She made her television debut in 2010, as a guest star in the CBS police procedural Blue Bloods, and later appeared on Person of Interest, The Blacklist and Deadbeat. King appeared in several short films in the early period of her career.
At Yale University, King performed in a number of productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Little Shop of Horrors, and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University's School of Drama in 2010. King was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Walnut, California.
In 2016, she portrayed Cherry Turner in the historical film The Birth of a Nation (2016) and the following year appeared in the comedy-drama The Upside (2017). She also has starred in the films Four (2012) and Reversion (2015). In 2014, King began starring as Michaela Pratt in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2015. She began her career in guest-starring roles on television, and starred as Cassandra Kopelson in The CW medical comedy-drama Emily Owens, M.D. She played Michaela Pratt in How to Get Away with Murder. University of California, Santa Barbara ( BFA)Īja Naomi King ( / ˈ eɪ dʒ ə/ born January 11, 1985) is an American actress.
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