Annie Ilonzeh

Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh was born in Nigeria. She is an American actress. Between 2010 and 2011, she starred as Maya Ward, a daytime ABC soap opera General Hospital. Kate Prince played the role of Kate Prince in the ABC revamped Charlie's Angels. Later she played recurring characters in the shows Drop Dead Diva, Arrow, Drop Dead Diva as well as Empire. Ilonzeh is a Grapevine Texas native who was a student at Colleyville Heritage High School. Her father is a Nigerian Igbo descendant, is his father. His mother is both white. She first appeared on television in 2007 with an episode on CBS's comedy How I Met Your Mother. She also had small parts in He's Just Not Into You Miss March & Percy Jackson & Olympians The Lightning Thief. Ilonzeh had a role as a regular for Melrose Place, a CW premier-time soap opera that ran from 2009 to 2010 and guest starred on three episodes of Entourage in the year 2010. The actress played Maya Ward in the ABC soap show General Hospital from 2010 until the year 2011. Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh (born August 24 1983, in Grapevine Texas) is an American actress. She played Emily Foster in Chicago Fire. In the years 2010 and 2011 she starred in ABC's General Hospital with the character of Maya Ward. Kate Prince was the character she played on ABC's brief-lived revival in the form of Charlie's Angels. There were recurring characters in Arrow Drop Dead Diva and Empire. Ilonzeh appeared alongside the cast of Til Death Do Us Part as the thriller and biographical drama The All Eyez at Me in the year 2017. She began co-starring with her co-stars in Chicago Fire as Emily Foster on NBC.