Sola Bamis

Sola Bamis is an actress, writer, and filmmaker committed to high-quality art-making across media platforms. Born in Miami, FL to Nigerian parents, Sola received her BA in Chemistry from the University of Miami and MFA in Acting from the California Institute of the Arts. She earned a SAG Award Nomination for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble in a Drama Series for her work as Shirley on the final season of Mad Men, and played Afeni Shakur, mother of famed rapper, actor, and artist Tupac Shakur, in USA's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. Other television credits include True Detective, Lethal Weapon, Perception, three seasons on Freeform's Stitchers, and more. She has also lent her voice talents to several video games, and radio and television commercials. Sola's theater credits include Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye, for which she received an NAACP Theatre Award nomination for Best Lead Actress (non-equity), Genevieve in the west coast premiere of "Office Hour