Saidah Arrika Ekulona

Saidah Arrika Ekulona

Saidah Arrika Ekulona is an Award-winning theatre, television, and film actress. She is best known for The Taking of Pelham 1:23, Two Lovers, Righteous Kill, and The Royal Tenenbaums.

She also has a recurring role as Abishola’s mother on the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola.

Movies for Saidah Arrika Ekulona...

The Family Meeting
Title: The Family Meeting
Character: Miriam
Released: February 2, 2023
Type: Movie
During a family meeting, a grandmother and granddaughter are forced to face their fears about growing old and growing up.
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Title: A League of Their Own
Character: Toni
Released: August 11, 2022
Type: TV
In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.
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Title: Bob Hearts Abishola
Character: Ebunoluwa
Released: September 23, 2019
Type: TV
A love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over.
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Title: Why Women Kill
Character: Taylor's Sister
Released: August 15, 2019
Type: TV
Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
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Dark Was the Night
Title: Dark Was the Night
Character: Betsy
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory in order to move on with their lives.
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Title: The Haunting of Hill House
Character: Mrs. Walker
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: TV
The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
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Title: A.P. Bio
Character: School Board Beth
Released: February 1, 2018
Type: TV
When disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher.
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The Lost
Title: The Lost
Character: Lily
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A nighttime protest downtown has escalated to require police backup for crowd control. As cop partners and a hobbyist photographer arrive late to the scene, an altercation takes place -- but what occurred depends on whose perspective you see.
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Title: No Activity
Character: Flight Attendant
Released: November 11, 2017
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of a major drug cartel bust, the series follows two low-level cops who have spent far too much time in a car together, two criminals who are largely kept in the dark, two dispatch workers who haven't really clicked and two Mexican tunnelers who are in way too small a space considering they've only just met.
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Title: Bull
Character: Judge Lucille Abernathy
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
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Honeyglue
Title: Honeyglue
Character: Dr. Ahmad
Released: June 3, 2016
Type: Movie
After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a purse snatching cross dresser artist, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.
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Title: Guidance
Character: Principal Walsh
Released: October 19, 2015
Type: TV
The truth behind a series of scandalous photos of Miriam, the most popular girl in school, unfolds through weekly sessions with the school’s guidance counselor, Anna.
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Title: Impastor
Character: Sheriff Rashida Graham
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: TV
Buddy Dobbs, a slacker on the run from a loan shark, steals a man's identity and ends up posing as a small town's new gay pastor.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: ADA Gina Khalil
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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Christian Mingle
Title: Christian Mingle
Character: Pam Thomas
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
A young, modern single woman enters the world of online dating looking for an instant soul mate.
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Miss Meadows
Title: Miss Meadows
Character: Doctor
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.
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Title: The 100
Character: Nygel
Released: March 19, 2014
Type: TV
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
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Malignant
Title: Malignant
Character: Doctor
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife, a grieving man becomes the victim of a horrific experiment to cure his addiction.
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Saving Lincoln
Title: Saving Lincoln
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Keckly
Released: February 15, 2013
Type: Movie
The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
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Title: The Newsroom
Character: Nia Robbie
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
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Title: Scandal
Character: Samantha
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: TV
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.
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Title: Austin & Ally
Character: Val Crawford
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: TV
A comedy about the unique relationship between a young songwriter, Ally Dawson, and Austin Moon, the overnight internet sensation who gains sudden notoriety after performing one of Ally's songs. Austin and Ally struggle with how to maintain and capitalize on Austin's newfound fame. Austin is more of a rebel type who doesn't follow the rules and is somewhat immature for his age, while Ally is conservative yet self-conscious.
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Title: Blue Bloods
Character: Leslie Fuller O.R. Pharm.
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: TV
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
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The Rebound
Title: The Rebound
Character: Lateefah
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Title: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Character: Dispatcher One
Released: June 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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Two Lovers
Title: Two Lovers
Character: Nurse
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Righteous Kill
Title: Righteous Kill
Character: Gwen Darvis
Released: September 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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Body/Antibody
Title: Body/Antibody
Character: Lady Cop
Released: June 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Kip Polyard is an obsessive-compulsive shut-in whose antiseptic world is invaded by Celine, the beautiful seductress who moves in next door to Kip's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Kip and Celine begin a tentative love affair that turns passionate and then deadly, as Celine's secrets turn Kip's perfectly organized life upside-down.
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Title: Bones
Character: Lean Marino
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Saving Face
Title: Saving Face
Character: Nurse #1
Released: May 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
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Alfie
Title: Alfie
Character: Gilda - the Receptionist
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences force Alfie to reflect on his lifestyle.
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Title: Hope & Faith
Character: Linda
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the Hollywood life as a soap opera star before her character was killed off.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
Title: The Royal Tenenbaums
Character: Nurse
Released: October 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Detective Yorkin
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Nardalee Ula
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Dr. Lakhmajara
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Mrs. Chance
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Nurse
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Officer Radsen
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Claire Metoyer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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The Life of Chuck
Title: The Life of Chuck
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A story told in reverse, starting with the end of Chuck Krantz's life, and moving back in time to show how he lived that life.