SUSAN KELECHI WATSON

Midsummer in Oxford ’98

Susan Kelechi Watson currently stars as Beth Pearson on NBC’s critically acclaimed series “This Is Us,” for which she earned an individual nomination for the 49th Annual NAACP Image Awards.

Susan has appeared in numerous television series including two seasons of “Louie” on FX. Additional television credits include: NBC’s “The Blacklist” and “Third Watch”; HBO’s “Divorce”; CBS’s “NCIS”; and FOX’s “The Following.”

Her film credits include period drama “Peter and John,” starring Jacqueline Bisset, and the indie “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts.”

Susan currently serves on the board of Drama Club, an organization that uses theater to mentor incarcerated youths in NYC. Started in 2013, Drama Club’s mission is to provide theater and positive mentor relationships to youth throughout each step of their journey through the criminal justice system.

Susan is also a proud Epic NEXT youth development mentor with the Epic Theatre Ensemble, a professional theater company with a mission to promote vital civic discourse and social change through drama. She co-created and continues to lead Epic NEXT’s Annual New Play Festival that showcases original plays about social justice issues as written, directed, and performed by Epic NEXT students.

She received her BFA from Howard University and MFA from NYU.