Annie Ilonzeh

Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh was born in Nigeria. She is an American actress. Between 2010 and 2011 she was Maya Ward on the ABC daytime soap drama General Hospital and then acted in the role of Kate Prince in the short-lived ABC revival of Charlie's Angels. In the following years, she was as a regular character on shows such as Arrow Drop Dead Diva Empire. Ilonzeh was born Grapevine from Texas attended Colleyville Heritage High School. Her father is Nigerian of Igbo origin and her mother is white. In 2007, she made her television debut in an episode of the CBS show How I Met Your Mother. The show featured her in small parts He's Not That Into You Miss March, Percy Jackson & The Olympians The Lightning Thief and He's Just not that Into You Miss March. Ilonzeh had a recurring part on the CW's maintime soap drama Melrose Place between 2009 and 2010; in 2010, she guest starred in 3 episodes of Entourage. Between 2010 as well as 2011, she portrayed Maya Ward, a daytime ABC soap opera General Hospital. Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh was born in the city of Grapevine, Texas on August 24, 1983. She is an American actress. She played Emily Foster on Chicago Fire. She played Maya Ward in ABC's daytime soap General Hospital between 2010 and 2011. In the following years, she appeared in the role of Kate Prince on the ABC rebooted Charlie's Angels. Later roles include recurring appearances for the shows Arrow Drop Dead Diva, Empire as well as other series. Ilonzeh was a character, Kidada Jones, in the biographical-drama film The All Eyez on Me. Also, she starred in the TV show Til Death Do Us Part. In 2018, she began co-starring as Emily Foster in the NBC drama Chicago Fire.