role as the witch Lenore a.k.a. Esther Mikaelson. Sohn made her directorial debut with the 2017 HBO documentary Baltimore Rising about the 2015 Baltimore protests and community organizing that arose in response to police violence. In 2021, Sohn directed The Slow Hustle, a documentary about the death of Baltimore Homicide Detective Sean Suiter, which was fictionally portrayed in the HBO miniseries We Own This City. It was announced in May 2022 that Sohn had signed on to ABC's police drama Will Trent as Amanda, the head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Trent's (Ramón Rodríguez) boss. The pilot episode aired January 3, 2023. Episodes will air on ABC, Tuesdays, 10pm EST and available to watch on Hulu. Activism Previously involved in political activism (she campaigned in North Carolina in support of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid), Sohn took a break from acting in 2009 to concentrate on social issues. She is the founder and CEO of the Baltimore-based reWIRED for Change, an outreach program intended to communicate with (and ultimately rehabilitate) at-risk youth involved in criminal activity. The program is run out of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and uses episodes of The Wire as a teaching tool, encouraging the participants to examine and query their lives and past actions. Other actors and writers involved with The Wire serve as board members. In 2011, she was presented with the Woman of the Year award from the Harvard Black Men's Forum. Personal life In 2003, Sohn married didgeridoo player Adam Plack. She has two daughters born 1986 and 1990. Sohn and Plack are divorced. On July 21, 2019, Sohn was arrested in North Carolina and charged with felony possession of cocaine. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References External links reWIRED for Change homepage, rewiredforchange.org; accessed December 8, 2014. ReWired and Reading Liverpool Philharmonic , liverpoolphil.com; accessed December 8, 2014. ReWired and Reading The Reader Organisation, thereaderonline.co.uk; accessed December 8, 2014. C-SPAN Q&A interview with Sohn, c-span.org; accessed December 8, 2014. 1964 births African-American poets African-American actresses American poets American writers of Korean descent American film actresses American television actresses African-American activists American activists American actresses of Korean descent Slam poets Living people People from Newport News, Virginia American women poets Actresses from Baltimore 21st-century American poets 21st-century American actresses 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women