Early life

Dandridge was born in Okinawa, Japan. Her father was an African-American US serviceman from Memphis and her mother was a local Okinawan of Korean and Japanese descent. As well as Okinawa, Dandridge has lived in Sacramento, California, at Beale Air Force Base, and later at Offutt Air Force Base (home to the then-Strategic Air Command) in Bellevue, Nebraska, where she spent the majority of her childhood. She attended Papillion La Vista High School and participated in the play production class and theater department there. She then attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University (currently called the Chicago College of Performing Arts)

Career

Dandridge began her career appearing in Chicago theatre productions. She has gained a wider audience as the voice of Alyx Vance in the award-winning action game Half-Life 2 and its sequels, Episode One and Episode Two, and also as Marlene in The Last of Us. On television, she guest starred on NCIS, 24, Criminal Minds, The Newsroom and Drop Dead Diva. Dandridge also had the recurring roles in the FX drama series, Sons of Anarchy as Rita Roosevelt, and short-lived The CW teen soap Star-Crossed in 2014. In 2015, she co-starred in the second season of NBC medical drama, The Night Shift as Gwen Gaskin.

In 2015, Dandridge was cast as one of leads in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf opposite Lynn Whitfield. She plays the role of Grace Greenleaf, Greenleaf's estranged daughter.

Filmography

Television and film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Angel	Lacey	Episode: "Home"
2003	The Edge	Agent Angela Wells	Pilot
2003	NCIS	Marcy Carruthers	Episode: "Sea Dog"
2005	Third Watch	Nikki	Episode: "Too Little, Too Late"
2005	All My Children	Lois	Recurring role
2005	Guiding Light	Lawyer	Episode: "July 21, 2005"
2007	I'm Paige Wilson	Gloria	Pilot
2008	Nothing But The Truth	Celia
2010	The Deep End	Jennifer Hutchins	Episode: "An Innocent Man"
2010	24	Kristen Smith	Episode: "Day 8, 12:00am- 1:00am"
2010	Matadors	Brooke Comas	Pilot
2010	CSI: Miami	Stacy Garrett	Episode: "Sleepless In Miami"
2011	Lie to Me	D.A. Jill Ottinger	Episode: "Saved"
2011	Love Bites	Krista	Episode: "How To..."
2011	Ringer	Dr. Anabel Morris	Episode: "Shut Up and Eat Your Bologna"
2012	Criminal Minds	Agent Lynn Brooks	Episode: "A Family Affair"
2011-2012	Sons of Anarchy	Rita Roosevelt	Recurring role, 6 episodes
2013	Company Town	Louise	Pilot
2013	Nikita	Zoe	Episode: "Inevitability"
2012—2013	The Newsroom	Maria Guerrero	Episodes: "Amen" and "One Step Too Many"
2014	The Mentalist	Lydia Faulk	Episode: "Il Tavolo Bianco"
2014	Star-Crossed	Vega	Recurring role, 7 episodes
2014	Drop Dead Diva	Nadine Comer	Episode: "Afterlife"
2014	Stalker	Dean Lisa Miner	Episode: "Pilot"
2014	NCIS: Los Angeles	CIA Officer Nicole Borders	Episode: "Reign Fall"
2015	Perception	Robyn Sherman	Episode: "Meat"
2015	Suits	Leah	Episode: "Intent"
2015-present	The Night Shift	Gwen Gaskin	Recurring role, 15 episodes
2015	Rosewood	Charlotte	Episode: "Vitamins and Vandals"
2016	Greenleaf	Grace Greenleaf	Series regular

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
1994	Once on this Island	Performer	Chicago, IL
1994	Robber Bridegroom	Rosamund	Roosevelt University Chicago, IL
1994	As You Like It	Rosalind	Roosevelt University Chicago, IL
1997	Balm in Gilead	Ann	Gilead Theatre Chicago, IL
1997	The Kentucky Cycle	Performer	Truman College (Chicago, IL)
1997	Company	Kathy	Chicago, IL
1997	Sweet and Hot	Performer	Theatre Building Chicago, IL
1998	Heart and Soul	Andrea	Chicago, IL
1998	Richard II	Performer	Gilead Theatre Co. Chicago, IL
1998	Ain't Misbehavin'		European Tour
1998	Smokey Joe's Cafe	Swing	National Tour
2000	Jesus Christ Superstar	Mary Magdalene	Ford Center for the Performing Arts (Broadway)
2001	Aida	Nehebka	National Tour
2002	Aida	Aida (Replacement)	Palace Theatre Broadway
2002-2008	Rent	Joanne Jefferson (Replacement)	Nederlander Theatre Broadway
2003	Showtune: Celebrating the Words & Music of Jerry Herman	Woman 2	Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena, CA
2006-2007	Tarzan	Kala	Richard Rodgers Theatre Broadway
2008	Monty Python's Spamalot	The Lady of the Lake	Shubert Theatre Broadway
2009-2010	Rent	Joanne	USA National Tour

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Half-Life 2	Alyx Vance
2006	Half-Life 2: Episode One	Alyx Vance
2007	Half-Life 2: Episode Two	Alyx Vance
2007	The Orange Box	Alyx Vance	Compilation
2013	The Last of Us	Marlene
2013	Dota 2	Legion Commander Winter Wyvern
2015	Everybody's Gone to the Rapture	Kate Collins
2016	Uncharted 4: A Thief's End	Evelyn Nun

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