Sonequa Martin-Green

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Sonequa Martin-Green
Birth name:	Sonequa Chaunté Martin
Date of birth:	21 March 1985
Place of birth:	Russellville, Alabama, USA
Awards for Trek:	2 Saturn Awards, 1 nomination 1 CCA Super Award nomination
Roles:	Series Regular
Character(s):	Michael Burnham (primary character; see additional characters for more)

Sonequa Martin-Green (born 21 March 1985; age 37) is an American actress who plays Michael Burnham, the lead character in Star Trek: Discovery.

Martin-Green has said she wasn't a Star Trek fan growing up, though she was aware of how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the original series. [1]

Martin-Green won a Saturn Award for her performance as Burnham at the 2018 ceremony and which was the first industry award she was nominated for. [2] This was followed by a second nomination in 2019 in the same category, [3] which she also won, and a third one in 2021.

Career

Martin-Green is best known for playing Sasha Williams on AMC's comic book TV adaptation of The Walking Dead (co-starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kenric Green, and guest starring Denise Crosby) between 2012 and 2018, and Tamara on ABC's Once Upon a Time (also starring Jennifer Morrison) in 2013.

She also played the recurring role of Courtney Wells in the legal drama series The Good Wife in 2009-11. She guest starred in episodes of series such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Army Wives (with Brian McNamara, Terry Serpico, Brigid Brannagh, and Wendy Davis, directed by Allison Liddi), Gossip Girl (directed by Larry Shaw), and New Girl.

She played Kamiyah James, the fictional wife of LeBron James in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy, which featured Sarah Silverman and the voices of Eric Bauza and Fred Tatasciore.

Martin-Green is married to fellow actor and Discovery season 2 castmember, Kenric Green who also acted on The Walking Dead. The couple have two children, a son born in 2015 and a daughter born in 2020.

Star Trek appearances

• DIS:
  • "The Vulcan Hello" (First appearance)
  • "Battle at the Binary Stars"
  • "Context Is for Kings"
  • "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"
  • "Choose Your Pain"
  • "Lethe"
  • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
  • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
  • "Into the Forest I Go"
  • "Despite Yourself"
  • "The Wolf Inside"
  • "Vaulting Ambition"
  • "What's Past Is Prologue"
  • "The War Without, The War Within"
  • "Will You Take My Hand?"
  • "Brother"
  • "New Eden"
  • "Point of Light"
  • "An Obol for Charon"
  • "Saints of Imperfection"
  • "The Sound of Thunder"
  • "Light and Shadows"
  • "If Memory Serves"
  • "Project Daedalus"
  • "The Red Angel"
  • "Perpetual Infinity"
  • "Through the Valley of Shadows"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
  • "That Hope Is You, Part 1"
  • "Far From Home"
  • "People of Earth"
  • "Forget Me Not"
  • "Die Trying"
  • "Scavengers"
  • "Unification III"
  • "The Sanctuary"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 1"
  • "Terra Firma, Part 2"
  • "Su'Kal"
  • "There Is A Tide..."
  • "That Hope Is You, Part 2"
  • "Kobayashi Maru"
  • "Anomaly (DIS)"
  • "Choose to Live"
  • "All Is Possible"
  • "The Examples"
  • "Stormy Weather"
  • "...But to Connect"
  • "All In"
  • "Rubicon"
  • "The Galactic Barrier"
  • "Rosetta"
  • "Species Ten-C"
  • "Coming Home"

Additional characters

Michael Burnham (holographic replica)
(DIS: "Perpetual Infinity")

Michael Burnham (mirror)
(DIS: "Terra Firma, Part 1", "Terra Firma, Part 2")

Other appearances

• AT:
  • "O Discovery, Where Art Thou?"
  • "Into the Forest I Go"
  • "Will You Take My Hand?"
• TRR:
  • "The Red Angel"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
• Star Trek Online: "Legacy" (Voice)

External links

• Sonequa Martin-Green at Twitter
• Sonequa Martin-Green at Instagram
• Sonequa Martin-Green at Wikipedia
• Sonequa Martin-Green at the Internet Movie Database
• Sonequa Martin-Green at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website