Dana Gourrier

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Dana Gourrier
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present

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.

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Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleRef.
2011HideDetective 3
Worst. Prom. Ever.Teacher
2012 Django Unchained Cora [2]
Bullet to the Head Deputy Coroner [3]
Haunted High Coach Hoover
2013Christmas on the BayouJanelle
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
DesireeStella
2016 Midnight Special Sharon Davidson
The Whole Truth Courthouse Employee
2017 Kidnap Deputy Sheriff
The Good Time GirlsAda
Same Kind of Different as Me Willow
The Tale of FourSweet ThingShort film
Heart, BabyOfficer Francine
2018 The Domestics Wanda
2021 The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Sadie

TV series

YearTitleRoleEpisode
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
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
Treme Detective Leroy
2
  • Feels Like Rain
  • On Your Way Down

Video games

YearTitleRoleRef.
2018 Detroit: Become Human Rose Chapman [5]

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References

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  5. "Le doublage dans Detroit Become Human". Ashes Heart (in French). May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.