Dawn Gardner is an actress from America who acted extremely well in the drama series called “Queen Sugar” who started to act at an early age and then has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey for a TV series where she has been acting phenomenally well.

Personal Life

Dawn Gardner was born on 31st August 1985 in Los Angeles, California. She is from a rich cultural heritage where her father is a black and her mother is Chinese and thus she has a mixed racial heritage but holds an American nationality. She completed her high school education at Los Angeles County High School for Arts in 1999.

She moved away to New York and studied at the Julliard School where her classmate was Rutina Wesley who would also work with her later in life. Dawn came out of Juliard School in 2003.

Till date there has been no news of her marriage with anyone else and she is still single. She has never really opened up her personal life at all which makes us come to the conclusion that she is a private person and likes to keep all these away from the vicinity of media.

Earlier there was a rumor that her husband was a professional basketball player but then she totally refused to it. Till date there are no instances of any biography written on her. She had clearly mentioned in she was not interested in making boyfriends instead she wanted to work hard and give outstanding performances.

Career

Gardner began her acting career very early and has a recurring role on the The Viper and she also came in as a guest in ER. By the time she was studying in Julliard, she acted in a lot of stage productions like For The School of Night, Colored Girls and The Seagull. After this, she also worked as the voice over artist playing Steela Gerrera in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

However, her most important role came after she was placed as a lead character with her old friend Rutina Wesley in the extremely popular Oprah Winfrey show, ‘Queen Sugar’ created and produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. In total, she has 20 credits as an actress for her appearances in movies and television series.

Also in the same year, she occurred in multiple episodes of the Netflix show "Luke Cage."However, recently she is also appearing in the blockbuster television series "The Dunning Man" as the role of Alice. She is one actress who has many more upcoming projects under her belt due to her extra ordinary sense of acting.

Some of the movies and television series that she has been a part of include ‘Unforgettable’, ‘Castle’, ‘Heroes’ and others. Gardner bagged the Black Reel Awards for Television nomination in the category of Outstanding Actress, Drama Series for her performance in ‘Queen Sugar’ in 2017. Her net worth in the present day is not known but she earns around $20,000 from her recent endeavours.