Danièle Watts is a talented actress, best known for her role as "Coco" in the Academy Award-winning film Django Unchained (2012),alongside Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
She has also appeared on TV shows such as Weeds (2012) and Partners (2014),starring alongside Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer.
A child of a Jamaican mother and an American father, Watts grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where she studied the performing arts in high school.
She went on to receive a Norman Topping community service based scholarship and a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from the University of Southern California.
Watts is an award-winning theatre artist and advocate for arts education, and has taught performance through various programs, including the Young Storytellers Foundation and the Spark Program.
She has also appeared in several films, including Wingman Inc. (2015) and Babysitter (2015),and has a leading role in the romantic comedy Wingman Inc. (2015),distributed through Lionsgate and Amazon Instant Video.
On YouTube, she plays Brian Jordan Alvarez's adopted sister in The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016),a breakout hit that was optioned by Lionsgate.
Watts is married to celebrity chef BeLive, and they have been consulting creative producers for the TV project "Juice Bar" through the arts education non-profit Arts Alliance For Humanity.
Since making news headlines in 2014, Watts and BeLive have been advocates for greater dialogue and awareness surrounding sexuality, and have participated with the Dr. Susan Block Institute for the Erotic Arts and Sciences to share sex therapy with the public.
As of 2020, Watts and BeLive are developing a musical documentary, "The Terrifying Lightness of Whiteness," which explores and celebrates the psychedelic awakening, expansion of consciousness, and music as a basis for a shared reality.
