Dana Gourrier

Dana Gourrier is an American actress, known for her roles as Tessa on the Netflix show Raising Dion (2019), Cora in the film Django Unchained (2012), and as Minnie Mink in The Hateful Eight (2015),^[1] both directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Early life

Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Gourrier graduated from Ursuline Academy in 1997. She originally majored in Psychology at the University of New Orleans, but dropped out to pursue performing arts as she had originally wanted. Gourrier received a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a master’s in acting from the California Institute of the Arts.^[2]

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2011	Hide	Detective 3
2011	Worst. Prom. Ever.	Teacher
2012	Django Unchained	Cora	^[2]
	Bullet to the Head	Deputy Coroner	^[3]
	Haunted High	Coach Hoover
2013	Christmas on the Bayou	Janelle
	Lee Daniels' The Butler	Helen Holloway
	From the Rough	Cafeteria Worker
	Remember Sunday	Bernadette
	Broken City	Cop
2015	The Runner	Daria Winston
	The Hateful Eight	Minnie Mink	^[4]
	Maggie	Woman In Scrubs
	Desiree	Stella
2016	Midnight Special	Sharon Davidson
2016	The Whole Truth	Courthouse Employee
2017	Kidnap	Deputy Sheriff
	The Good Time Girls	Ada
	Same Kind of Different as Me	Willow
	The Tale of Four	Sweet Thing	Short film
	Heart, Baby	Officer Francine
2018	The Domestics	Wanda
2021	The United States Vs. Billie Holiday	Sadie

Year	Title	Role	Episode
2022	Ghosts	Jennifer	1 Dumb Deaths
2022	Interview with the Vampire	Bricktop Williams	3 In Throes of Increasing Wonder... ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self Is My Very Nature That of a Devil
2022	Evil	Yasmine	2 The Demon of Parenthood The Demon of the End
2021	The Good Fight	June Barrow	1 And the Fight had a Détente...
2020–2022	P-Valley	Lauren 'The Jukebox' Hawkins	3 Belly Demethrius Snow
2018	GLOW	Judith	1 Mother of All Matches
2017	The Arrangement	Nina	2 The New Narrative Sins
2016	Superstore	Lydia	1 Dog Adoption Day
2016	StartUp	Maya	1 Bootstrapped
2015–2016	Togetherness	Phoebe	6 For the Kids The Sand Situation Geri-ina Changetown Everybody Is Grownups Kick the Cun
2015	The Astronaut Wives Club	Antoinette Gibbs	4 Landing Abort In the Blind Protocol
2014	Red Band Society	Teacher	2 Ergo Ego Pilot
	True Detective	Cathleen	6 Haunted Houses The Secret Fate of All Life Who Goes There The Locked Room Seeing Things The Long Bright Dark
	Ravenswood	Vickie	1 Revival
2013	American Horror Story	Chantal	5 Head Burn, Witch. Burn! Fearful Pranks Ensue The Replacements Boy Parts
2012	Common Law	Helling	1 The T Word
2011	Memphis Beat	Shawna	1 Body of Evidence
2011	Treme	Detective Leroy	2 Feels Like Rain On Your Way Down

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2018	Detroit: Become Human	Rose Chapman	^[5]

^ Folley, Aris (May 6, 2016). "Actress Dana Gourrier Fighting Hard Not to be Typecast". NBC News. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Sutton, Callie (June 7, 2013). "N.O. native gets 'Unchained' role". The Advocate. ISSN 0001-8996. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Weissberg, Jay (November 14, 2012). "Bullet to the Head". Variety. Variety Media, LLC. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 810134503. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ Blakey, Bobby (April 7, 2016). "Interview with The Hateful Eight star Dana Gourrier". Axs.com. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
^ "Le doublage dans Detroit Become Human". Ashes Heart (in French). May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.

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