Assata Shakur
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 16, 1947, Queens, New York, USA
- Movies
- 4
Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2016 | 13th | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Assata aka Joanne Chesimard | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Fred Baker - filmmaker | |
| 1997 | Eyes of the Rainbow | Self |
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