CCH Pounder

Award winning actress CCH Pounder will soon be seen in Cape Fear for Apple TV+ and The Terror: Devil in Silver for AMC. Her current credits are James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Paramount Pictures’ The Naked Gun, and recent projects include the Netflix film, Rustin, the Max series Full Circle, the Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Hulu’s Black Cake and Avatar: The Way Of Water. Pounder portrayed Dr. Loretta Wade on the CBS series NCIS: New Orleans for seven seasons, and other notable projects include Smithsonian Channel’s 100 Years Of Slavery, as well as the television shows The Good Fight, Warehouse 13, Sons of Anarchy, Revenge, Brothers, Law & Order: SVU, and HBO’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which garnered Pounder her fourth Emmy nomination. For seven years, Pounder portrayed Claudette Wyms on the critically acclaimed FX series The Shield, which earned her an Emmy nomination, the MIB Prism Award, two Golden Satellite Awards, and the Genii Excellence in TV Award. Other honors for Pounder include Emmy nominations for her role as Dr. Angela Hicks on the NBC series ER and for her role in FOX’s The X-Files.  In addition, she received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for Grow Old Along With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be and won an AUDIE, the Audio Publishers Association’s top honor, for Women in the Material World. Film credits include Prizzi’s Honor, Postcards From The Edge, Face/Off, Orphan, Avatar, and her breakout role in Bagdad Café. Originally from Georgetown, Guyana, in 2016 Pounder received The Cacique’s Crown of Honour, the second highest award in the Order of Service of Guyana and in 2023, received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Guyana. A graduate of Ithaca College, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the school and in 2021, she received Ithaca College Alumni Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Pounder serves on the Board of the African Millennium Foundation and was a founding member of Artists for a New South Africa. An advocate of the arts, she is active in the Creative Coalition.