Danai Jekesai Gurira (akaberekwa 14 Kukadzi 1978) mutambi wemuZimbabwe-America uye munyori wemitambo. Anonyanya kuzivikanwa nemabasa ake eudanhi saMichonne pahhora yeAMC inonzi The Walking Dead (2012-2020) uye saOkoye mufirimu regambahuru reRuzvose reUsinema weMarvel rokuti Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), uye Avengers: Endgame (2019). Gurira ndiye zvakare munyori wemutambo unonzi Eclipsed ye Bhurodhiweya uyo akanominetwa kupiwa Mubairo weTony weMutambo wakaGoneswa. Gurira akanominetwa zvakare pamubairo wePulitzer Prize for Drama pamutambo wake, In The Continuum, uyo waakanyorawo pamwe nekuimbawo. Gurira akaberekerwa muGrinnell, Iowa, kuna Josephine Gurira, muraibhurari wepakoreji, uye Roger Gurira, purofesa anoshanda muDhipatimendi reChemistry paGrinnell College (vabereki vese vakazobatana nevashandi veYunivhesiti yeWisconsin-Platteville ). Vabereki vake vakabva kuSouthern Rhodesia, iyo yava kunzi Zimbabwe, vachienda kuUnited States muna 1964. Ndiye gotwe pavana vamai vake vana; Shingai naChoni ihanzvadzi dzake uye Tare, munin’ina wake, chiremba wechiropractic . Gurira akagara kuGrinnell kusvika Zvita 1983, pazera remakore mashanu iye nemhuri yake vakadzokera kuHarare, guta guru reZimbabwe, mushure mekunge nyika yawana kuzvitonga .