Zainab Jah is a British stage, television, and film actress of Sierra Leonean descent. In 2012, she received the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Featured Actress in a Play for The Convert, a co-production with McCarter Theatre Center and Goodman Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Jah has also worked in film and on television. She is known for her work in False Positive (2021), Instinct (2018), and Blindspot (2018).