What is Sonja Sohn?
[[File:Sonja Sohn.jpg|thumb|200px|Sohn in 2011]] '''Sonja Denise Plack''' (''{{nee}}'' '''Williams'''; born May 9, 1964), better known as '''Sonja Sohn''', is an [[Americans|American]] actress. She is known for playing [[Baltimore]] detective [[Kima Greggs]] in the [[HBO]] series ''[[The Wire]]'' (2002–2008). She is also an activist and filmmaker. She co-wrote and starred in the movie ''[[Slam (1998 movie)|Slam]]'' (1998). She also directed the HBO [[documentary]] ''[[Baltimore Rising]]'' (2017), about the [[2015 Baltimore protests]]. Sohn's other TV roles include Samantha Baker in ''[[Body of Proof]]'', Laverne Johnson in ''[[The Chi]]'' and Gabrielle Burnham in ''[[Star Trek: Discovery]]''. Sohn was born at [[Fort Benning]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. Her mother was [[Koreans|Korean]] and her father was an [[African American]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?304794-1/qa-sonja-sohn|title=Q&A with Sonja Sohn|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|date=March 7, 2012|access-date=September 14, 2021}}</ref> Her parents met when her father was stationed in [[South Korea]] after the [[Korean War]]. She grew up in [[Newport News, Virginia]]. Sohn has two daughters, born in 1986 and 1990. She was married to [[Australia]]n-born musician [[Adam Plack]] from 2003 to 2011. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} *{{IMDb name}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sohn, Sonja}} [[Category:1964 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Actors from Georgia (U.S. state)]] [[Category:Actors from Virginia]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:African-American movie actors]] [[Category:African-American movie directors]] [[Category:African-American movie producers]] [[Category:African-American screenwriters]] [[Category:African-American television actors]] [[Category:People from Newport News, Virginia]] {{US-actor-stub}}