Ajiona Alexus

Ajiona Alexus Brown is an American actress and singer. She began her career starring in the TV One sitcom The Rickey Smiley Show (2012–2014), and later played Teenage Cookie Lyon in the Fox musical drama series Empire (2016–2019). She starred in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018), the Hulu supernatural thriller Light as a Feather (2018–2019), and the Starz crime drama BMF (2021). Alexus also starred in films Something Like Summer (2017), Acrimony (2018), Breaking In (2018), Mary J. Blige's Real Love and Mary J. Blige's Strength of a Woman (2023).