Aminah Nieves

About

Aminah Nieves is an American actor from Hammond, Indiana of Taino and Coahuiltecan descent. She became known for her breakthrough performance in 1923 as Teonna Rainwater.

As a child Aminah was always called to the stage. For a while she thought she was going to be this traveling symphonic musician
Nieves’ passion for acting took hold during high school, where a newly opened performing arts school in Hammond allowed her to be part of . Two months after graduating, she left for New York. For most of the following decade, she struggled to make her way, landing mostly uncredited supporting roles for four or five years.
At some point while living in New York, Aminah was working four jobs at once, trying to make rent. As an herbalist working on her own herbal shop and doing her own practice outside of that. She was also a doula and worked in a clothing store. However, none of that satisfied her, so she moved back home.

While living in New York she managed to be part of a few short and/or indie films such as Blueberry, Maya (Maya Danzig) runs away with a young woman, Elsa, (Aminah Nieves) she meets in rural Iowa leaving her sister, Molly alone in a violent relationship…