Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Acting
Biography
Saidah Arrika Ekulona is an Award-winning theatre, television, and film actress. She is best known for The Taking of Pelham 1:23, Two Lovers, Righteous Kill, and The Royal Tenenbaums.
She also has a recurring role as Abishola’s mother on the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola.
As actor 47
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
NCIS
2003
Nurse Jackie
2009
Bones
2005
Shameless
2011
Blue Bloods
2010
Better Call Saul
2015
The 100
2014
Scandal
2012
Sex and the City
1998
Bull
2016
Why Women Kill
2019
Bob Hearts Abishola
2019
Austin & Ally
2011
The Newsroom
2012
A.P. Bio
2018
Hope & Faith
2003
The Haunting of Hill House
2018
Oh. What. Fun.
2025
Righteous Kill
2008
No Activity
2017
The Life of Chuck
2025
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
A League of Their Own
2022
Guidance
2015
Impastor
2015
Two Lovers
2008
The Rebound
2009
Alive
2019
Wonderland
2000
Amber Alert
2024
Alfie
2004
Miss Meadows
2014
Saving Face
2004
Dark Was the Night
2018
Happy Accidents
2000
Christian Mingle
2014
Saving Lincoln
2013
Honeyglue
2016
Body/Antibody
2007
Malignant
2013
Orpheus Star
2020
The Lost
2017
Red Blooded
The Family Meeting
2023