Bahia Watson (born May 15, 1992) is a Canadian actress and playwright, best known for her recurring role as Brianna/Oferic in the television series The Handmaid's Tale.

She grew up in Carman, Manitoba, the daughter of a Canadian father and a Guyanese mother. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale she has had recurring roles as Sakai in The Expanse and May in Star Trek: Discovery; voice roles in Mysticons, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Big Blue, Total DramaRama and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark; and film roles in Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, What We Have, Cranks and The Archivists.

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As a playwright she has been associated with Nightwood Theatre and d'bi Young's anitAFRIKA dub theatre, and has written cabaret stage shows with Liza Paul including pomme is french for apple and Mashup Pon Di Road.

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As a cast member in The Handmaid's Tale, she is a two-time Screen Actors' Guild nominee for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, receiving nods at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2019 and at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2020. She won the award for Outstanding Voice Performance — Female from the Toronto chapter of the ACTRA Awards in 2021 for Total Dramarama.

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1992 births

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21st-century Canadian actresses

21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights

21st-century Canadian women writers

Canadian television actresses

Canadian film actresses

Canadian voice actresses

Canadian stage actresses

Canadian women dramatists and playwrights

Black Canadian writers

Black Canadian actresses

Actresses from Manitoba

Canadian people of Guyanese descent

People from Carman, Manitoba

Black Canadian women writers