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Assata Shakur profile
Actor

Assata Shakur

Acting

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Acting credits

4

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

1.3

Low visibility

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Movies: 4Series: 0

TMDB ID: 1473424

IMDb ID: nm2104313

Known for: Acting

Born: July 16, 1947

Age: 78

Place of birth: Queens, New York, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1997 - 2016

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 7.88

Wikidata: Q467961

Also known as

Joanne Chesimard

Biography

Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.

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