Bahia Watson | |
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Born | May 15, 1992 Carman, Manitoba, Canada |
Occupation(s) | actor, singer |
Years active | 2015—present |
Bahia Watson (born May 15, 1992) is a Canadian actress and playwright, best known for her recurring role as Brianna/Oferic in the television series The Handmaid's Tale . [1]
She grew up in Carman, Manitoba, the daughter of a Canadian father and a Guyanese mother. [2]
In addition to The Handmaid's Tale she has had recurring roles as Sakai in The Expanse and May in Star Trek: Discovery ; [3] voice roles in Mysticons , Clifford the Big Red Dog , Big Blue , Total DramaRama , The Loud House , and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark ; and film roles in Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang , What We Have , Cranks and The Archivists . [4]
As a playwright she has been associated with Nightwood Theatre and d'bi Young's anitAFRIKA dub theatre, and has written cabaret stage shows with Liza Paul including pomme is french for apple [5] and Mashup Pon Di Road. [6]
As a cast member in The Handmaid's Tale, she is a two-time Screen Actors' Guild nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, receiving nods at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2019 [7] and at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2020. [8] She won the award for Outstanding Voice Performance — Female from the Toronto chapter of the ACTRA Awards in 2021 for Total Dramarama. [9]
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