Zainab johnson

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Zainab Johnson is an American comedian and actress. Johnson is a series regular on Amazon's Upload. Johnson was born and raised in Harlem , New York, one of thirteen children of a devout Muslim family. Johnson later moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. She was named to Variety ' s 10 Comics to Watch for Johnson co-hosts the Netflix series Humans.

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Johnson stood on a box looking into a mirror during a recent photo shoot, alternating between serious vogue looks, smiling and posing just so — she truly looks like a model — with praise from her team as they looked on. Her reflection gave the optical illusion that her face was one of the famous stand-up comics the club proudly endorsed like George Carlin, Jay Leno, Sarah Silverman and Chris Rock. But none of the iconic stand-ups mounted in the halls of the famous club on Melrose Avenue looked like Johnson or had life experiences that were anything like hers. But she hopes to have her name and face recognized among comedy legends someday soon. But there was also a time where Johnson thought she wanted to be a secretary. The children she went to school with often had mothers who were executive assistants. But Johnson said that looking back and knowing how phenomenal her mom is and was at the time, she recognized she used to feel ashamed her mom stayed at home.

Zainab johnson

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem with her 12 siblings, she was neither the family jokester nor the class clown. When Johnson tells me about the trip that became the first of many steps leading to a career in comedy, it was as if she was always destined to be on the stage. The day we talk in Manhattan, Johnson wears wide-legged jeans, a sheer lemon-colored tank top, and pointed heels. Her father joined the Nation of Islam while in the Navy during the Civil Rights era, when many Black people were in search of a new spiritual identity to combat the racism they experienced in America. But she faced discrimination and bullying, as well. As a child who wore a khimar, a headscarf covering her head, neck, and shoulders, she was constantly asked questions about her hair, ranging from its texture to its very existence. When she was in second and third grade, she recalls, she got her khimar pulled off her head. Then there were the twin struggles of not seeing positive representations of herself in popular media and watching her friends get all the dating attention. She finally stopped wearing her hijab for good to play basketball. Nobody ever made me feel good about it.

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