Ajiona Alexus

Ajiona Alexus Brown (born March 16, 1996) 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 Strength of a Woman (2023)