GeekFest Film Fests at RCCC

APPEARING: FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY

BUY BADGES

Janeshia Adams-Ginyard will be appearing at the GeekFest Booth.

Janeshia Adams-Ginyard is an Emmy-nominated actor and stuntwoman, voice actor, former professional wrestler, and impact speaker from Southern California. Trained in taekwondo, fluent in American Sign Language and a former brakeman for the U.S. National Bobsled team, Janeshia has won three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has had major roles in Hollywood that span from television, commercial, and film. She had two roles in the 2018 Marvel Studios feature film Black Panther. In 2021, she reprised her role as Nomble, a member of the Dora Milaje, in the Marvel Studios Disney+ series, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Later that year, Janeshia was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her work on HBO’s Lovecraft Country. She later starred in the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Letters at Christmas opposite Dean Cain, and the action sci-fi Lunar Lockdown. Janeshia played the role of Officer Conn on the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, Station 19 and was the stunt double for Aunjanue Ellis in Lee Daniel’s horror film, The Deliverance. She voices the female Eric Cartman character in South Park: Joining the Panderverse special event for the animated television series South Park and was introduced as the character Zora, the ASL Interpreter in the third season of the ABC Emmy-winning sitcom, Abbott Elementary. Her book, Don’t Wait For The Period, Leave At The Comma.: Your rulebook on disengaging from negativity and taking your power back is an Amazon bestseller. Janeshia has several upcoming projects, including End The Wait, a film inspired by a true story of kidney donation directed by Dean Cain. She is a member of the SAG-AFTRA National Stunt Committee and has moderated panels for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.