Sonja Sohn

Sonja Sohn

Born: January 1, 1964
in Newport News, Virginia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sonja Sohn is an American actress and community activist. She is best known for her role as Detective Kima Greggs on the hit HBO drama The Wire, which has led to her current work as the leader of the Baltimore community initiative ReWired for Change.  She is currently starring as Detective Samantha Baker on the ABC drama series Body of Proof.

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Movies for Sonja Sohn...

Breakwater
Title: Breakwater
Character: Bonnie
Released: December 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.
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Big George Foreman
Title: Big George Foreman
Character: Nancy Foreman
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.
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Title: Will Trent
Character: Amanda Wagner
Released: January 3, 2023
Type: TV
Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
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Title: Interrogation
Character: Marjorie Thompson
Released: February 5, 2020
Type: TV
Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Each episode is structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files, with the goal of turning the viewer into a detective.
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Title: Godfather of Harlem
Character: Nell
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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High Flying Bird
Title: High Flying Bird
Character: Myra
Released: January 27, 2019
Type: Movie
During an NBA lockout, a sports agent, Ray Burke, presents his rookie client, Erick Scott, with an intriguing and controversial business opportunity.
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Title: The Chi
Character: Laverne Johnson
Released: January 7, 2018
Type: TV
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.
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Title: Star Trek: Discovery
Character: Dr. Gabrielle Burnham
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: TV
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
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Domain
Title: Domain
Character: Atlanta
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
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Title: Shut Eye
Character: Detective
Released: December 7, 2016
Type: TV
A darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin boss, until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset, making him question everything he has ever believed.
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Title: Incorporated
Character: Chairman Fisher
Released: November 30, 2016
Type: TV
Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
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Title: Marvel's Luke Cage
Character: Captain Betty Audrey
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: TV
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
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The Missing Girl
Title: The Missing Girl
Character: Franny
Released: September 13, 2015
Type: Movie
THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novelist he's hired. The story involves the search for a girl who isn't missing and the discovery that it's never too late for late bloomers.
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Title: The Originals
Character: Lenore
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: TV
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
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The Wire: The Musical
Title: The Wire: The Musical
Character: Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!
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Title: Body of Proof
Character: Det. Samantha Baker
Released: March 29, 2011
Type: TV
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Sonya Rucker
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Step Up 2: The Streets
Title: Step Up 2: The Streets
Character: Sarah
Released: February 14, 2008
Type: Movie
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore s underground dance battle The Streets.
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The Wire Odyssey
Title: The Wire Odyssey
Character: Herself
Released: December 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.
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Tapping the Wire
Title: Tapping the Wire
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a mission to explain what makes The Wire the best cop show ever made.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Olivia Riley
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Title: Brothers and Sisters
Character: Trish Evans
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Toni Halstead
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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The Killing Zone
Title: The Killing Zone
Character: Jennifer
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn. In an instant, everything he's absorbed in twent years in America is thrown into question, and his search for the boy resurrects memories of his own buried past.
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Title: The Wire
Character: Kima Greggs
Released: June 2, 2002
Type: TV
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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G
Title: G
Character: Shelly
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections.
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Shaft
Title: Shaft
Character: Alice
Released: June 15, 2000
Type: Movie
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
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Bringing Out the Dead
Title: Bringing Out the Dead
Character: Kanita
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Lisa Carter
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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Getting to Know You
Title: Getting to Know You
Character: Lynn
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.
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Slam
Title: Slam
Character: Lauren Bell
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.
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Work
Title: Work
Character: June
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
In an economically struggling small town, Jenny, a young married woman, begins an affair with June, her college-bound, African-American neighbor.