Annie Ilonzeh

Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh is a Nigerian-American actor. She first appeared in the role of Maya Ward (ABC's General Hospital) from 2010 to 2011. Then she was cast as Kate Prince, in the ABC's Charlie's Angels reboot. In the following years, she starred in regular roles on shows such as Arrow, Drop Dead Diva and Empire. Ilonzeh was raised in Grapevine and went to Colleyville Heritage High School. Her father was a Nigerian Igbo and her mother was white. In 2007 she first appeared on television on the CBS show How I Met Your Mother. She played small roles in She's Just Not Into You Miss March, Percy Jackson & The Olympians The Lightning Thief and He's Just not that Into You Miss March. Ilonzeh played a regular role in the CW's premiertime soap drama Melrose Place between 2009 and 2010. In 2010, she was a guest on three episodes of Entourage. The role of Maya Ward was played by her in the years 2010 to 2011 in ABC's soap-opera General Hospital. Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh (born August 24 1983, in Grapevine Texas) is an American actress. She played Emily Foster in Chicago Fire. From 2010 to 2011 she portrayed Maya Ward on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital and then starred in Kate Prince in the short-lived ABC revival of Charlie's Angels. Later roles include recurring roles in Arrow Drop Dead Diva, Empire as well as other series. In 2017, she played Kidada Jones on the biographical All Eyez on Me and starred in the thriller Til Death Do Us Part. As Emily Foster, she co-starred in Chicago Fire, an NBC series Chicago Fire.