Yolonda Ross is a two-time Film Independent Spirit Award nominee and Gotham Award winner for HBO’s Stranger Inside and John Sayles’s Go For Sisters. Ross is recognized for her wide range of work in film, television and stage, including: Angela Bassett’s Whitney, Denzel
Washington’s Antwone Fisher Story, and David Mamet’s, The Unit, and Phil Spector. Yolonda has recurred in How To Get Away With Murder, The Get Down, and Treme, which inspired her directorial debut, Breaking Night, currently running on VH1 Classics. Ross also plays series regular, Jada, on the Lena Waithe Showtime drama, The Chi.