Meet Nicole Beharie, starring on The Morning Show as Olympian-turned-journalist Chris Hunter
The highly accomplished actress attended Juilliard and Oxford, made her acting debut in 2008, and has showcased her musical talents too
In “Amari”, we see Christina, better known as Chris, a former Olympic medallist turned journalist, fight back against allegations that she used performance-enhancing drugs during her athletic career. Spoiler alert: Chris admits that the rumours are true and opens up about using the doping drugs to cope after she experienced a miscarriage five and a half months into the pregnancy. She had named the unborn baby boy Amari.
Here’s everything you need to know about the star of the heartbreaking episode, Nicole Beharie.
She attended Juilliard
Beharie was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, in January 1985 to a Jamaican-English mother and African-American father. Her father was in the US Foreign Service, so she moved country to country as a child. She attended Juilliard drama school in New York City and was awarded a Shakespeare scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.
“I was honoured to receive it, but I didn’t think I was going to,” she said in an interview with The I Paper in 2020. “I remember thinking, ‘They’ve got all these people who fit the mould of who is supposed to get a Shakespeare scholarship.’ And then I got it and I was like, ‘Ooooh, what?! All right, then we are going!’ It turned a challenge into an adventure.”
She is an award-winning actress
