Dana Gourrier

Dana Gourrier
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present

Dana Gourrier is an American actress, known for her roles as Tessa on the Netflix show Raising Dion (2019), Cora in the film Django Unchained (2012), and as Minnie Mink in The Hateful Eight (2015),[1] both directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Early life

Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Gourrier graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1997. She originally majored in Psychology at the University of New Orleans, but dropped out to pursue performing arts as she had originally wanted. Gourrier received a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a master’s in acting from the California Institute of the Arts.[2]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Ref.
2011 Hide Detective 3
Worst. Prom. Ever. Teacher
2012 Django Unchained Cora [2]
Bullet to the Head Deputy Coroner [3]
Haunted High Coach Hoover
2013 Christmas on the Bayou Janelle
Lee Daniels' The Butler Helen Holloway
From the Rough Cafeteria Worker
Remember Sunday Bernadette
Broken City Cop
2015 The Runner Daria Winston
The Hateful Eight Minnie Mink [4]
Maggie Woman In Scrubs
Desiree Stella
2016 Midnight Special Sharon Davidson
The Whole Truth Courthouse Employee
2017 Kidnap Deputy Sheriff
The Good Time Girls Ada
Same Kind of Different as Me Willow
The Tale of Four Sweet Thing Short film
Heart, Baby Officer Francine
2018 The Domestics Wanda
2021 The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Sadie

TV series

Year Title Role Episode
2022 Ghosts Jennifer
1
  • Dumb Deaths
2022 Interview with the Vampire Bricktop Williams
3
  • In Throes of Increasing Wonder...
  • ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self
  • Is My Very Nature That of a Devil
2022 Evil Yasmine
2
  • The Demon of Parenthood
  • The Demon of the End
2021 The Good Fight June Barrow
1
  • And the Fight had a Détente...
2020–2022 P-Valley Lauren 'The Jukebox' Hawkins
3
  • Belly
  • Demethrius
  • Snow
2018 GLOW Judith
1
  • Mother of All Matches
2017 The Arrangement Nina
2
  • The New Narrative
  • Sins
2016 Superstore Lydia
1
  • Dog Adoption Day
StartUp Maya
1
  • Bootstrapped
2015–2016 Togetherness Phoebe
6
  • For the Kids
  • The Sand Situation
  • Geri-ina
  • Changetown
  • Everybody Is Grownups
  • Kick the Cun
2015 The Astronaut Wives Club Antoinette Gibbs
4
  • Landing
  • Abort
  • In the Blind
  • Protocol
2014 Red Band Society Teacher
2
  • Ergo Ego
  • Pilot
True Detective Cathleen
6
  • Haunted Houses
  • The Secret Fate of All Life
  • Who Goes There
  • The Locked Room
  • Seeing Things
  • The Long Bright Dark
Ravenswood Vickie
1
  • Revival
2013 American Horror Story Chantal
5
  • Head
  • Burn, Witch. Burn!
  • Fearful Pranks Ensue
  • The Replacements
  • Boy Parts
2012 Common Law Helling
1
  • The T Word
2011 Memphis Beat Shawna
1
  • Body of Evidence
Treme Detective Leroy
2
  • Feels Like Rain
  • On Your Way Down

Video games

Year Title Role Ref.
2018 Detroit: Become Human Rose Chapman [5]

References

  1. ^ Folley, Aris (May 6, 2016). "Actress Dana Gourrier Fighting Hard Not to be Typecast". NBC News. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Sutton, Callie (June 7, 2013). "N.O. native gets 'Unchained' role". The Advocate. ISSN 0001-8996. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Weissberg, Jay (November 14, 2012). "Bullet to the Head". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 810134503. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  4. ^ Blakey, Bobby (April 7, 2016). "Interview with The Hateful Eight star Dana Gourrier". Axs.com. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  5. ^ "Le doublage dans Detroit Become Human". Ashes Heart (in French). May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
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