Yvonne Anyili Orji

Yvonne Anyili Orji (born 2 December 1983) is an Nigerian-American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role in the television series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and three NAACP Image Awards.

Quotes

• It was just so wild because once I settled into the ‘let’s just see, let’s just have fun,’ everything that was already inside of me, that was already purposed inside of me, came out.
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• But I put so much work and I put so much effort and I believe in it.
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• The first laugh I ever got was when I did comedy for the first time at a beauty pageant in graduate school.
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