Mariah Dillard

Played by Alfre Woodard

Mariah Dillard is a Harlem city councilwoman and the cousin of crime boss Cornell Stokes, publicly campaigning for the neighborhood's legitimate renewal while privately drawing on the same family criminal fortune Stokes relies on. Her attempt to distance herself from that legacy repeatedly collapses under the pressure of protecting it, pulling her further into the violence she claims to oppose. Read more →

First turns up in Luke Cage (Season 1).