--- description: Find out how Lashana Lynch is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: 2022 TIME100 Next: Lashana Lynch image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321b6bda075b8589/698a35c6b3fce317d30c9af7/time100-next-lashana-lynch.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 28, 2022 # Lashana Lynch by Viola Davis  Zoe McConnell—August Zoe McConnell—AugustZoe McConnell—August [Lashana Lynch](https://time.com/5626544/lashana-lynch-new-james-bond-movie/ "undefined") is a spiritual and professional life force, a divine light keeper. It permeates from her when she enters a room. As a performer, she holds bold, quiet, unapologetic confidence and the wisdom of knowing what she was put on this earth to do—and a willingness to inject it in others. It is that rare gift that only lives in our heroes. She is someone who will fight beside you, hold you up when you cannot stand, see you despite your invisibility to others, and blast a hole in this lifetime to remind us that she was HERE! She is an Agojie, a warrior, and a titan who will influence an entire generation. _Davis, who appears with Lynch in the film_ [The Woman King](https://time.com/6213834/the-woman-king-review-viola-davis/ "undefined"), _is a producer and Oscar-winning actor_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/"},"headline":"Lashana Lynch","datePublished":"2022-09-28T09:54:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:05:58.235Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/","keywords":["TIME 100 Next"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321b6bda075b8589/698a35c6b3fce317d30c9af7/time100-next-lashana-lynch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321b6bda075b8589/698a35c6b3fce317d30c9af7/time100-next-lashana-lynch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/","name":"Lashana Lynch"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Next: See Every Honoree","description":"See every 2022 TIME100 Next honoree in under two minutes.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/i4LJ3fau/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2022-09-28T10:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/i4LJ3fau.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213730/lashana-lynch/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```