Andra Day
Actor · Born December 30, 1984 (41) · Spokane, Washington, USA
Golden Globe winner · Oscar nominee · 2 other major award bodies
Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known professionally as Andra Day, is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Grammy Award, a Children's and Family Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, along with nomination for an Academy Award. In 2015, she released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the single, "Rise Up", was nominated for Best R&B Performance. To promote "Rise Up", she performed the song on The View, earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the performance. Day also appeared alongside Stevie Wonder, who is partially credited for her discovery, in an ad for Apple TV in late 2015. In 2020, Day became one of the most-requested artists among Jazz Joy and Roy Global Radio listeners. In 2021, Day made her acting debut with her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels' biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Day received the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the film's accompanying soundtrack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andra Day, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 30, 1984 (41)
- Spokane, Washington, USA
- Actor
- 9 on MovieCove · 13 credits in all
What are Andra Day's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 3
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 0 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 3
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 2 of 3 analyzed roles.
- Heroas Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
- Allyas Aisha in Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
- Heroas Ebony Jackson in The Deliverance (2024)
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Andra Day's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Andra Day's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
13 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page; 30 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Is This Thing On?(2025)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Exhibiting Forgiveness(2024)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
The Deliverance(2024)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Bel-Air(2022)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows
We the People(2021)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Marshall(2017)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Cars 3(2017)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Letter to the Free (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Real Daytime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Don't Go Gentle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Honest Liar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 92nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 13 titles, 11 of them dated from 2014 to 2025; peak year 2025.
Biggest box office
Is This Thing On? (2025)
Highest rated
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Most popular right now
The Deliverance (2024)
Film career
Peak 2025 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 1 MovieCove title. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2017Screen debut· Marshall
- 2021First top-billed film· The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- 2021Golden Globe win· The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
Awards
a Golden Globe and 1 other major award from 8 major nominations, 2016–2022.
- Grammy Award, won · Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Oscar, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globe, won · Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Original Song - Motion Picture
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Actress
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Song Written for Visual Media
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best R&B Album
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best R&B Performance
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Andra Day's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 71st percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 60th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 9 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the acting 83/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 89, detractors 68. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Andra Day's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Andra Day work with?
People who share at least 2 of Andra Day's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Lee Daniels shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Lee DanielsShared titles: The Deliverance (2024), The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Lee Daniels
Actors
- Aunjanue Ellis-TaylorShared titles: Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), The Deliverance (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Miss LawrenceShared titles: The Deliverance (2024), The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Miss Lawrence
