
Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Acting
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.
Known For

1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · tv

1990
Law & Order
1990 · tv

2003
NCIS
2003 · tv

2011
Shameless
2011 · tv

2005
Bones
2005 · tv

2015
Better Call Saul
2015 · tv

2010
Blue Bloods
2010 · tv

2014
The 100
2014 · tv

1998
Sex and the City
1998 · tv

2012
Scandal
2012 · tv

2016
Bull
2016 · tv

2012
The Newsroom
2012 · tv

2009
Nurse Jackie
2009 · tv

2019
Bob Hearts Abishola
2019 · tv

2019
Why Women Kill
2019 · tv

2018
The Haunting of Hill House
2018 · tv

2011
Austin & Ally
2011 · tv

2003
Hope & Faith
2003 · tv

2018
A.P. Bio
2018 · tv

2017
No Activity
2017 · tv

2025
The Life of Chuck
2025 · movie

2015
Impastor
2015 · tv

2022
A League of Their Own
2022 · tv

2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · movie

2009
The Rebound
2009 · movie

2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · movie

2015
Guidance
2015 · tv

2004
Saving Face
2004 · movie

2000
Wonderland
2000 · tv

2025
Oh. What. Fun.
2025 · movie