Nationality: American
Birthdate: 01/28/1962
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
Versatile black player with stage, TV and film experience who appeared on Broadway in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" (1981) and gained notice for two quite different but equally impressive performances in 1991: as the attractive, intelligent Bensonhurst woman who dates John Turturro in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever", and as the harried mother who favors one son (Morris Chestnut) over the other (Ice Cube) in John Singleton's forceful coming-of-age drama, "Boyz N the Hood".
While a high school senior, played Portia in a University of Texas at Austin production of "The Merchant of Venice"
Moved from Houston to New York after high school
Appeared in stage productions including, "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" (1981) and "Ain't Misbehavin'" on Broadway and the national touring company of "Dreamgirls"
1984
Feature film debut, "Gimme an F"
