Acclaimed Actor, Advocate and Author
BELLAMY YOUNG is best known for her critically acclaimed role of President Mellie Grant on ABC’s “Scandal,” which earned her a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She can recently be seen starring in Hulu’s “The Other Black Girl,” as well as in NBC’s “Brilliant Minds” opposite Zachary Quinto.
A Yale graduate, she began her career on Broadway, notably in the musical The Life, before transitioning to television and film, starring in series such as “Prodigal Son” and “Criminal Minds” and films like “A Wrinkle in Time” and “Mission: Impossible III,” among many others.
Young has performed at the White House, and her album “Far Away So Close” is available on all platforms. She is a passionate philanthropist and serves as a gender justice ambassador for global humanitarian organization CARE, for whom she recently created the podcast, She Leads with CARE, highlighting the stories of inspiring women leaders from around the world and inviting listeners to realize the power within themselves to create change. Also an author, her first novel, “The Aetherion Code,” co-written with her dear friend Fay Masterson, was released this past summer.