Yaya DaCosta

ACTRESS, PRODUCER

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Yaya DaCosta was born and raised in New York City along with her sister and two brothers. She got her first acting gig at the age of eleven when her junior high school drama teacher, Ann Willis Ratray, encouraged her to audition for educational films. She continued to perform in school shows throughout high school and college and in 2005, made her feature film debut in Take the Lead. In 2008, she made her Off-Broadway debut in "The First Breeze of Summer" at The Signature Theater, for which she garnered rave reviews and won the Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Award for Excellence in Black Theater. She has portrayed a range of characters, from Danny Glover's frail teenage daughter in John Sayles' Honeydripper, to Mark Ruffalo's voluptuous lover in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right. She has been tagged one of Hollywood's new "it girls" by many, including Lynn Hirschberg who featured her on the cover of W Magazine in September, 2010. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Beth Rosner Management

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Streaming Availability

Microsoft Store has the most number of Yaya DaCosta’s flixes, followed by Amazon Video compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Yaya DaCosta on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 2006 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Yaya DaCosta movies released per year from 2006 till 2018.

Top Genres

Yaya DaCosta works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Biography Genre flixes. 43% of Yaya DaCosta movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Yaya DaCosta worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Yaya DaCosta has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

Yaya DaCosta's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Drama
Chicago Med (2015)

The city's most highly skilled medical team saves lives, while navigating their unique interpersonal relationships.

7.6/1043 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Drama
Faith Under Fire (2018)

On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school under siege from a deranged killer bent on murdering the students.

6.8/1085 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,History
Honeydripper (2007)

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the ...

6.7/10124 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Drama,Music
Take the Lead (2006)

The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids.

6.6/10118 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Biography,Drama,Sport
Racing for Time (2008)

From Emmy-winning director and actor Charles S. Dutton, comes the true story of a guard (Dutton) at a Teen Correctional Facility-- who saw the cycle of destructive choices and racial ...

6.1/1086 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Biography,Drama
Whitney (2015)

A chronicle of Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.

5/1088 min

Available in 4 platform(s).