Amirah Vann

Amirah Charline Vann (born 1980) is an American singer and actress. Amirah Charline Vann is well-known for her performance as Tegan Price, an attorney in the film How to Get Away with Murder. She then obtained her bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 2002, and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2007. Vann worked for many years in Off Broadway theater before moving to film and television.Vann played secondary roles in movies, such as And So It Goes and Tracers and her most memorable performance as Ernestine the house slave head on the Macon plantation in the WGN America period drama series Underground in 2016. The show was cancelled after just two seasons in 2017. She later guest starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and also was a regular on the final season of Major Crimes as Special Agent Jazzma Fey.During the 2017-18 season, Vann was cast as attorney Tegan Price in the ABC legal drama How to Get Away with Murder.Originally a recurring role, Vann was promoted to series regular for season five and season six In the early part of 2018, Vann began to appear on the ABC drama pilot The Holmes Sisters produced by Regina King and Robin Roberts. Vann is also featured in a regular role in the USA Network limited series Unsolved, The Murder Of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. as an FBI agent who is assigned to the task force of multiple agencies tasked with the Christopher Wallace murder investigation.