Meet the New Faces of the Showtime Drama

With ‘The Chi’ Season Five premiering on Sunday, June 26, see some of the actors joining the Showtime drama, including Nia Jervier and L’lerrét Jazelle.

The Chi returns for its 5th season tonight, Sunday, June 26, at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime. And should you tune into Season 5, you’ll see new faces joining the mix!

Showtime calls The Chi “a timely coming-of-age tale centering on a bunch of citizens on the South Side of Chicago who change into linked through twist of fate but bonded by way of the want for connection and redemption.”

And Season 5 “delves deeply into the many joys and complications of Black love: relationships, youngsters, career, neighborhood, and self.”

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Alongside returning cast members Jacob Latimore, Alex Hibbert, Yolonda Ross, Shamon Brown Jr., Michael V. Epps, Birgundi Baker, Luke James, and Curtiss Cook, Season Five will see Kandi Burruss, La La Anthony, Jason Weaver, and Iman Shumpert return as guest stars.

But Showtime has additionally published some of the new characters fanatics will see in the fifth season. Read on, when you don’t mind a few minor The Chi spoilers.

Nia Jervier plays Tierra, Douda’s god-niece.

According to Showtime, Nia Jervier is taking part in Tierra, “the poised, polished and pushed god-niece of Douda (Curtiss Cook), whom he recruits for a rebranding effort.”

You might acknowledge Nia from the 2014 movie Dear White People or its 2017 TV derivative of the identical name. In the latter mission, which streamed four seasons on Netflix, Nia played Kelsey, a “gold big name” lesbian faculty scholar.

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Later, Nia seemed in the BET sequence Twenties, some other TV display created via The Chi mastermind Lena Waithe. This February, when her casting on The Chi made headlines, Nia thanked Lena, her “fairy god-sister,” on Instagram for “seeing and celebrating this eccentric unicorn.”

Carolyn Michelle Smith plays Deja, Shaad’s new love passion.

Carolyn Michelle Smith performs Deja, described as “a new love passion for Shaad (Jason Weaver) who is helping him level up in more ways than one.”

After taking guest-starring roles in How to Get Away With Murder, Luke Cage, and Code Black, Carolyn recurred in the Netflix presentations House of Cards and Russian Doll, showing in three episodes apiece. In the former, she played Willa, leader of personnel for Claire Underwood (Robin Wright). And in the latter, she plays Agnes, grandmother of Alan (Charlie Barnett).

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L’lerrét Jazelle plays hard-hitting journalist Fatima.

An actor on the rise, L’lerrét Jazelle portrays Fatima in The Chi’s fifth season. Showtime explains that the character is “a local journalist who wants the perfect for her neighborhood and is not afraid to carry politicians' ft to the hearth to get the fact.”

L’lerrét has a few TV credit to her identify: She guest-starred on the displays 4400, 9-1-1, and NCIS: Los Angeles, and she or he took a role in the Showtime pilot Coercion.

Antonyah Allen plays Simone, a new classmate of Kevin

And Showtime says that Antonyah Allen will seem in Season Five as Simone, “Kevin’s (Alex Hibbert) new classmate, an inventive introvert who repeatedly challenges him and opens his thoughts to new experiences.” Antonyah seems to be a Hollywood newcomer, not even having an IMDb profile yet!

The Chi Season Five premieres this night, Sunday, June 26, at Nine p.m. ET on Showtime.

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