Exclusive: In a continuation of a recent signing hot streak, Independent Artist Group has brought in Sonequa Martin-Green, the star of Star Trek: Discovery, who’s made history in recent years as the franchise’s first Black female Starfleet Captain, and its first to take top billing.
The Emmy-winning series, set 10 years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, has her playing Michael Burnham, who comes to the USS Discovery as its science specialist, after being imprisoned for a mutiny above the USS Shenzhou. The thesp is also a producer on the show created for Paramount+ (then CBS All Access) by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, which is expected to return for its fifth and final season next year.
Prior to Star Trek: Discovery, which shot her to a new level of stardom and made her one of the most in-demand actresses on television, Martin-Green was well known for her turn...
The Emmy-winning series, set 10 years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, has her playing Michael Burnham, who comes to the USS Discovery as its science specialist, after being imprisoned for a mutiny above the USS Shenzhou. The thesp is also a producer on the show created for Paramount+ (then CBS All Access) by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, which is expected to return for its fifth and final season next year.
Prior to Star Trek: Discovery, which shot her to a new level of stardom and made her one of the most in-demand actresses on television, Martin-Green was well known for her turn...
- 9/12/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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