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Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is an English actress, writer, DJ, model, and radio host. She's best known for her roles as Tahani Al-Jamil on the sitcom The Good Place and Mary MacPherran / Titania on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, as well as host of the game show The Misery Index and judge of reality competition show Legendary. In animation, she's known as the voice of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the film DC League of Super-Pets, Asencia on the series Star Trek: Prodigy, Roxie on the series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Gandra Dee on Ducktales. She was discovered at 22 years old when she was teaching English in London, UK. Her first job in media was a main host on T4, the UK's leading youth entertainment show where she made a name for herself interviewing famous actors and musicians. She also became a journalist for Cosmopolitan Magazine and the Huffington Post. After 2 years, she became the face of Maybelline and Nails Inc and in 2012, she released her own clothing line after much success in the fashion industry and having shot for both British and American Vogue, Glamour Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Japanese teen vogue. 2012 also saw her nominated for the PPA and BSME awards for her writing. Later that year ,she was recruited by BBC Radio 1, to host her own show on their network, which would lead to a promotion in 2013, where she made history as the first woman in its 60 years on air, to host the Official Chart on the esteemed radio station. With much success, including several awards for radio and a growing DJ career she stayed on at the network until 2015, when she left to pursue a writing career in the United States. After signing as a comedy writer at 3ARTS and being taken on by UTA, in spite of never having acted before, she was sent to audition for Mike Schur's latest project on NBC, The Good Place, to star opposite Ted Danson and Kristen Bell.


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Born:
Feb 25, 1986 In Hampstead, London, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
44
First Appeared:
In the series Room 101 1994-07-04
Latest Project:
Movie Elio 2025-06-12
Known For
Filmography
Movie Elio Ambassador Questa (voice) 2025-06-12
Movie Lola and Freddie Unknown 2025
Series Poker Face Ava 2023-01-26
Series Clone High Mrs. C (voice) 2023-05-23
Movie Love at First Sight Narrator (voice) 2023-09-15
Series Krapopolis Hestia (voice) 2023-09-24
Movie DC League of Super-Pets Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (voice) 2022-07-27
Movie Marry Me Anikah 2022-02-09
Series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Mary MacPherran / Titania 2022-08-18
Series The Jennifer Hudson Show Unknown 2022-09-12
Series Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin Gisela 2022-11-23
Movie Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Self 2022-11-03
Series Rugrats Lady De-Clutter (voice) 2021-05-27
Series The Demi Lovato Show Self 2021-07-30
Series Star Trek: Prodigy Asencia (voice) 2021-10-28
Series Legendary Self - Judge 2020-05-27
Movie One World: Together at Home Self 2020-04-18
Series Crossing Swords Sloane (voice) 2020-06-12
Series Defining Moments with OZY Self 2020-03-04
Series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Roxie (voice) 2020-09-18
Series Animaniacs Sultana (voice) 2020-11-20
Movie How to Build a Girl Cleopatra 2020-09-24
Movie Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate Unknown 2019-05-14
Series Tamron Hall Self - Guest 2019-09-09
Series A Little Late with Lilly Singh Self 2019-09-16
Series The Misery Index Self - Host 2019-10-22
Movie The Paley Center Salutes The Good Place Self 2019-09-19
Series Harley Quinn Eris (voice) 2019-11-29
Series DuckTales W.A.N.D.A. (voice) 2017-08-12
Series The Good Place Tahani Al-Jamil 2016-09-19
Series Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Self 2015-08-02
Series Duck Quacks Don't Echo Unknown 2014-02-07
Series The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Self 2014-02-17
Series Virtually Famous Self - Panelist 2014-07-21
Series Late Night with Seth Meyers Self 2014-02-25
Series The Great Comic Relief Bake Off Herself - Contestant 2013-01-21
Series Good Mythical Morning Self 2012-01-09
Series Conan Self 2010-11-08
Series Celebrity Juice Self 2008-09-24
Series Freshly Squeezed Host 2006-08-21
Series Playing It Straight Herself - Presenter 2005-04-08
Series The View Self - Guest 1997-08-11
Series The Daily Show Self 1996-07-22
Series Room 101 Self 1994-07-04