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Shari Headley

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 07/15/1964 (59) | Queens, New York (United States of America (USA))
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Shari Headley (born July 15, 1964) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lisa McDowell in the 1988 box-office hit romantic comedy film Coming to America and its sequel Coming 2 America (2021). Headley also has appeared in films The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Johnson Family Vacation (2004). On television, Headley starred as Detective Mimi Reed in the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children on a regular basis from 1991 to 1994. As lead actress, she starred in the Fox short-lived drama series 413 Hope St. (1997–1998), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nomination. From 2014 to 2016, Headley starred as villainous Jennifer Sallison in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera The Haves and the Have Nots. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prin ...

Coming to America

15

1988 | 3.4/5 | 1h 57min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wis ...

Coming 2 America

Certification unknown

2021 | 3.3/5 | 1h 50min
Comedy
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A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War. ...

Towelhead

Certification unknown

2008 | 3.1/5 | 1h 51min
Drama
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All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and ...

All My Children

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1970 | 3.0/5 | 1h per episode
Soap / Telenovela
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Movies with Shari Headley as Actress(12)

as Lisa2021 Coming 2 America
as Imani2019 Three's Complicated
as Mrs. Carter2018 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
as Wendy2015 I Really Hate My Ex
as Maple2014 The Congregation
as Tianna2013 Act Like You Love Me
as Alexis2008 Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club
as Jacqueline2004 Johnson Family Vacation
as Arlene Chattan1996 The Preacher's Wife
as Trish1990 Kojak: None So Blind
as Trish Van Hogan1989 Kojak: Ariana
as Lisa McDowell1988 Coming to America

TV Shows/Series with Shari Headley as Actress(18)

as D.A. Jennifer Sallison2013 Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
2011 Switched at Birth
as Gwendolyn Berdick2011 Switched at Birth
as Nicole Cameron2009 Castle
as herself2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Vanessa Hamilton2004 Veronica Mars
as Dr. Arlene Marks2004 House
2002 Half & Half
2001 One on One
as Barbara1998 Love Boat: The Next Wave
as Juanita Barnes1997 413 Hope St.
as Dawn1995 The Wayans Bros.
1994 New York Undercover
as Vanessa St. John1993 Walker, Texas Ranger
as Violet Walters1989 Quantum Leap
1989 Gideon Oliver
1986 Matlock
1984 Miami Vice

Additional Information

Full Name: Shari Headley
Born: Wednesday, 07/15 1964 (July) in Queens, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 59 years + 286 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Christopher Martin
Shari Headley frequently works together with these people:
Deborah Pratt (9x, Actress)
Dick Wolf (8x, Crew)
Patrick St. Esprit (8x, Actor)
Donald P. Bellisario (8x, Crew)
Terence Paul Winter (7x, Crew)
Brad Leland (7x, Actor)
Giancarlo Esposito (6x, Actor)
Julio Oscar Mechoso (6x, Actor)
Rob Hanning (6x, Crew)
Jim Vickers (6x, Crew)
Eddie Murphy (5x, Actor)
Paul Brown (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:2065, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/04/2024