A rising star with a bright future, Aja Naomi King is an American actress who is best known for her starring role as Michaela Pratt in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder.
King began her career in 2008 with a short film entitled Gloria Mundi. She continued working in short films where she appeared in two in 2010, Eve and A Basketball Jones. During this time she also appeared on the television series Blue Bloods. Her feature film debut came in 2011 with Damsels in Distress.
In 2012 King managed to gain a major role as the main antagonist in the CW’s series Emily Owens, M.D. While the series was canceled in 2013, King’s star continued to rise. She appeared in two independent films in 2013, 36 Saints and Four, the latter of which won the Los Angeles Film Festival Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble. King continued to appear on television in The Blacklist, Deadbeat, and Black Box.
King’s biggest break came in 2014 when she was cast as one of the lead roles in ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, Michaela Pratt. She was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for this role. Her work in this role led her to be cast as Cherry Turner in the 2016 film The Birth of A Nation for which she was nominated for two awards.
King is still dazzling audiences as Michaela Pratt in How To Get Away With Murder. She also appeared as the character in an episode of Scandal. She is set to appear in two films in 2019 The Upside and A Girl from Mogadishu.
