Cynthia Addai-Robinson is an English-born actress. She was born in London; her mother is from Ghana and her father is an American citizen. She moved to US when she was 4 and was raised by her mother in a suburb of Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD.

Film and television Year Title Role Notes
2002 The Education of Max Bickford Susan Episode: "1.18"
2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury Lillian Beaudriville Episode: "1.2"
2005 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Jeanette Episode: "5.8"
2006 Justice Debra Mortin Episode: "1.11"
2007 Dash 4 Cash Meredith TV Movie
2007 A.M.P.E.D. Paige Moscavell TV Movie
2007 CSI: Miami Courtney Rinella Episode: "5.12"
2007 Dirt Woman / Michelle 2 episodes
2007 Entourage Amanda's Assistant #2 Episode: "3.13"
2007 Life Stephanie Episode: "1.02"
2009 Numb3rs Trisha Moreno Episode: "5.15"
2009 CSI: NY Dr. Karita Neville Episode: "5.23"
2009 FlashForward Debbie 6 episodes
2010 NCIS: Los Angeles Woman Episode: "3.21"
2011 Colombiana Alicia Restrepo Feature
2012 Spartacus: Vengeance Naevia 10 episodes
2013 Spartacus: War of the Damned Naevia 10 episodes
2013 The Vampire Diaries Aja 2 Episodes
2013 King & Maxwell Megan Ainsley Pilot
2013 Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret Leslie TV Movie
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness San Francisco Woman Feature
2013—present Arrow Amanda Waller 13 episodes
2015 Texas Rising Emily D. West TV Miniseries
2016 The Accountant Filming

Off-Broadway
Four
Regional & NYC Theater
The Last Word
A Woman of No Importance
The Crucible
In Times of War
The Stormy Weather Revue
The Seagull
Bye Bye Birdie
You Can’t Take It With You

Training
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, B.F.A in Theater
Lee Strasberg Theater Institute
Acting: Hope Arthur, Irma Sandrey, Robert Castle, Geoffrey Horne, Bill Balzac
Speech: John Van Wyden
Ballet, Jazz, Tap: Geoffrey Ferguson, Madeleine Reiss
Stonestreet Film & Television Studios
Soaps: David & Linda Laundra
Sitcoms: Angela Pietropinto
Commercials: Terri Cole Juhasz

Special Skills
Accents & Dialects: Standard British, Cockney, South African, West African, Nuyorican
Basic Hand-to-Hand stage combat; basic Spanish and Italian; play the flute