Edwina garnered critical acclaim for her role as in director Ava Duvernay's award winning feature MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which stormed the Sundance Film Festival as the year's breakout film. She was seen in the hit Warner Bros comedy feature with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, GET HARD, and the independent film FREE IN DEED which won the Venice Film Festivals' Horizons Award for Best Film and Edwina garnered an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for her performance. At the height of her final season of HBO's Emmy nominated, critically acclaimed series TREME, Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey enlisted Edwina to star in OWN network's newest installment to primetime, IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG which premiered to record setting ratings. Other television credits include: FEAR THE WALKING DEAD (AMC), BLACK LIGHTNING (CW), CHICAGO MED (NBC), SHOTS FIRED (FOX), VEEP (HBO), and THE WIRE (HBO). Edwina has performed extensively in theatre, earning her the Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and the NAACP Theatre Award nominations.