Dajour Ashwood

Acting

Dajour Ashwood

Place of birth

Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

Born and raised in Harlem New York, Dajour Ashwood graduated from the same high school as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacob, and Mobb Deep (Art & Design). He grew up with actors Bokeem Woodbine and Mekhi Phifer. Dajour is known for his work in Barry Jenkins' Underground Railroad TV Series, FX's Valor TV Series, and NBC Found TV Series. Ashwood has also written, directed, and produced several shows of his own. His most recent is a Sci-Fi called "PressuRx," which is streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi. Outside of acting, Dajour is an award winning public speaker, savvy film editor, and accountant.

Known for

Atlanta poster
8.0

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

Atlanta

2016

Found poster
6.3

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people of color, too easily neglected by the system. Gabi Mosely, a former missing person herself, now specializes in PR and leads a crisis management team that seeks out these missing people. But unbeknownst to anyone, Mosely is hiding a dark secret of her own.

Found

2023

Watchmen poster
7.6

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Watchmen

2019

The Underground Railroad poster
7.2

Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

The Underground Railroad

2021

Valor poster
6.4

The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

Valor

2017

ATL Homicide poster
NR

Homicide detectives David Quinn and Vince Velazquez are veterans of the Atlanta Police Department. They are sitting down to share some of the grittiest stories of their careers. Quinn and Velazquez recall these cases and talk about their personal experiences while solving the crimes. They have tackled hundreds of cold cases together, with anything from murder to everyday crime, and they try to bring these criminals to justice and give peace to the victims' families.

ATL Homicide

2018

Film credits

Series credits

Atlanta poster
8.0

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

Atlanta

2016

Found poster
6.3

In any given year, more than 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. Of these reported cases, more than half of the missing people are people of color, too easily neglected by the system. Gabi Mosely, a former missing person herself, now specializes in PR and leads a crisis management team that seeks out these missing people. But unbeknownst to anyone, Mosely is hiding a dark secret of her own.

Found

2023

Watchmen poster
7.6

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Watchmen

2019

The Underground Railroad poster
7.2

Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

The Underground Railroad

2021

Valor poster
6.4

The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

Valor

2017

ATL Homicide poster
NR

Homicide detectives David Quinn and Vince Velazquez are veterans of the Atlanta Police Department. They are sitting down to share some of the grittiest stories of their careers. Quinn and Velazquez recall these cases and talk about their personal experiences while solving the crimes. They have tackled hundreds of cold cases together, with anything from murder to everyday crime, and they try to bring these criminals to justice and give peace to the victims' families.

ATL Homicide

2018

Murder Chose Me poster
8.0

Homicide detective, Rod Demery, races against the clock to catch criminals running loose on the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Murder Chose Me

2017

I Am Homicide poster
7.0

Working for nearly three decades with the Charlotte (N.C.) Police Department, Detective Gary McFadden has developed unorthodox methods that have helped him solve more than 700 homicide cases. He has a 90-percent success rate with the investigations he pursues. "I Am Homicide" shows how Detective McFadden uses his street smarts to work the neighborhood networks and gather critical information for leads, at times risking his life by trusting the streets he calls home.

I Am Homicide

2016