About Me
Isis Henderson, named after the ancient Egyptian goddess of magic, healing, and transformation, is an African-American stage and screen actress from New Jersey.
Drawn to art long before she had the language to understand it as a practice, Isis spent her childhood writing poetry, dancing, and drawing before eventually discovering acting as another way to express and explore the world around her.
At ten years old, she performed in her first Off-Broadway production as Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre Center, beginning a relationship with performance that has continued to evolve alongside her.
Isis is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she received her primary training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Her love of classical text led her to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she studied Shakespeare in performance. She also trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.
Across stage and screen, Isis is particularly drawn to women with rich interior lives: characters navigating ambition, desire, identity, resilience, grief, and the things left unsaid. Her work is rooted in a desire to explore people in their fullness, embracing the contradictions and complexities that make them human.
Height: 5"1
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Location:
New York, NY
New Jersey
