13 Amazing facts about Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira (With Pictures)

10. She’s Spent Time in Zimbabwe

You don’t get much more exotic than Zimbabwe and Danai knows all about it. Her parents are originally from there but went to America for a short time. Although Danai was born in America, she has moved around a bit as well. When she was a child during the first few years of her life, she lived in Ohio but then moved with her parents to Zimbabwe.

That would certainly be a change of scenery, but all little kids tend to adapt to new surroundings. She returned to the United States when she went to college at Macalester College.

There she received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Master of Fine Arts in acting from the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Due to the time that she spent in Zimbabwe with her parents she now considers herself to be “Zimerican.”