Jasika Nicole

In 2017, she voiced a femme "brown-skinned energetic creative" named Reina, for the Amazon Video animated series Danger & Eggs, who likes to build with her hands, is empowered by the world around her, and is the best friend of one of the protagonists.

Jasika Nicole grew up in Birmingham, AL. She studied musical theatre, dance and studio art at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina before moving to NYC to work in theatre. In her younger days, she spent time in show choir. She sang a piece from "A Chorus Line" in Fringe's Season 2 episode "Brown Betty." When she moved to New York she performed in Broadway musicals and plays before starting her career in TV and film. Identifying as a queer, biracial, and black woman, Nicole was featured in the 2010 OUT 100 list in Out magazine, and was photographed alongside Bruno Tonioli, Armistead Maupin, and Bill Silva for the issue. She married her long-time partner, Claire J. Savage, on October 5, 2013 and has been with her wife since 2006. This overlaps in her career as she has most recently voiced the role of the queer, WOC narrator, Keisha Taylor, in the cult favorite Night Vale Presents podcast 'Alice Isn't Dead'. Most people know her from her acting but she first started with her own website sharing her artwork. Outside of TV and film, Nicole is an avid craftsperson, penning essays and blog posts about intersectional feminism in the crafting world. She sews her own clothes, makes shoes, builds and reupholsters furniture, and draws and writes her own web comics. She's studying the production of graphic novels as she creates her own series, called "High Yella Magic." Before her time in television she also sold her original hand drawn art prints. Some prints that are now sewn on eco-conscious tote bags.

Jasika Nicole Pruitt (born April 10, 1980), known professionally as Jasika Nicole, is an American actress and illustrator from Birmingham, Alabama. She is known for her role as Agent Astrid Farnsworth on the Fox series Fringe She has guest-starred in Scandal as Kim Munoz. Currently, she stars as Carly Lever, the head of pathology, in the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor.