Dawn Staley
Acting1970 (56)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball coach and former player who is a three-time national championship winning head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. A point guard, she played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers and spent eight seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association, primarily with the Charlotte Sting. Staley also played on the United States women's national basketball team, winning three gold medals at the Olympic Games from 1996 to 2004, and was the head coach of the team that won an Olympic gold medal in 2021. She is the only person to win the Naismith Award as both a player and a coach. Staley was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012, and has been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame twice: in 2013 for her individual playing career, and in 2026 as a member of the 1996 United States women's Olympic basketball team.
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10- 2026Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt StoryMovieas Self
- 2026The MomentMovieas Self
- 2024Full Court PressTV showas Self · 4 episodes
- 2022Game Theory with Bomani JonesTV showas Self · 1 episodes
- 2020The PlaybookTV showas Self · 1 episodes
- 2019The Tamron Hall ShowTV showas Self - Guest · 1 episodes
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertTV showas Self - Guest · 1 episodes
- 2008The Black List: Volume OneMovieas Self
- 1996The Daily ShowTV showas Self · 2 episodes
- 1992MartinTV showas Dawn Staley · 1 episodes