Fred Hechinger, in October 2022. In January 2023, she was cast in a leading role in the Ava DuVernay film Caste, adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Personal life In her 2022 interview with Variety magazine, Ellis came out as bisexual. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References Further reading Brenna, Susan. “Up and Coming; Aunjanue Ellis and Carrie Preston; Two Young Performers Ride the Tempest.” The New York Times, December 17, 1995, p. 2002006, www.nytimes.com/1995/12/17/theater/up-coming-aunjanue-ellis-carrie-preston-two-young-performers-ride-tempest.html. Current Biography. Bronx, N.Y: H.W. Wilson Co, 1940. Print. External links 1969 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Mississippi African-American actresses American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Brown University alumni Living people Tisch School of the Arts alumni Actresses from San Francisco Delta Sigma Theta members Bisexual actresses Bisexual women LGBT African Americans LGBT people from California