Teyonah Parris Moves To The Head Of The Class

BuzzFeed - If you only know Teyonah Parris as Dawn on Mad Men , you’ve got some catching up to do. The star of Dear White People and Survivor’s Remorse officially has gone from supporting actor to scene-stealer. Roadside Attractions / Via Tumblr Teyonah Parris may have broken ground as the first black actor on AMC's game-changing series Mad Men, but she's not a household name. At least, not yet. However, if her latest slew of roles is any indication, it won't be long before Parris joins the ranks of some of the boldfaced names with whom she studied at The Juilliard School, where she attended alongside Adam Driver, of Girls fame, in between Samira Wiley and Danielle Brooks, stars of Orange Is the New Black, and oh — Nicole Beharie of Sleepy Hollow was a classmate too. "It's just so many great folks and we all support each other and lift each other up," the twentysomething actor told BuzzFeed News, sitting on a couch in her hotel suite at the Four Seasons in Bever