Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is an English actress, writer, DJ, model, and radio host. She's best known for her roles as Tahani Al-Jamil on the sitcom The Good Place and Mary MacPherran / Titania on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, as well as host of the game show The Misery Index and judge of reality competition show Legendary. In animation, she's known as the voice of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the film DC League of Super-Pets, Asencia on the series Star Trek: Prodigy, Roxie on the series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Gandra Dee on Ducktales. She was discovered at 22 years old when she was teaching English in London, UK. Her first job in media was a main host on T4, the UK's leading youth entertainment show where she made a name for herself interviewing famous actors and musicians. She also became a journalist for Cosmopolitan Magazine and the Huffington Post. After 2 years, she became the face of Maybelline and Nails Inc and in 2012, she released her own clothing line after much success in the fashion industry and having shot for both British and American Vogue, Glamour Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Japanese teen vogue. 2012 also saw her nominated for the PPA and BSME awards for her writing. Later that year ,she was recruited by BBC Radio 1, to host her own show on their network, which would lead to a promotion in 2013, where she made history as the first woman in its 60 years on air, to host the Official Chart on the esteemed radio station. With much success, including several awards for radio and a growing DJ career she stayed on at the network until 2015, when she left to pursue a writing career in the United States. After signing as a comedy writer at 3ARTS and being taken on by UTA, in spite of never having acted before, she was sent to audition for Mike Schur's latest project on NBC, The Good Place, to star opposite Ted Danson and Kristen Bell.

Born:

Feb 25, 1986 In Hampstead, London, England, UK

Movie/TV Credits:

16

First Appeared:

In the series The Daily Show 1996-07-22

Latest Project:

Movie Elio 2025-06-12