Shalita Grant, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress, officially began her career with films and television series such as Repeating a Dream, Empire Corner, Invisible, The Good Wife, Bones, Melissa & Joey, and NCIS . : New Orleans. She is also a theater performer who presents on stage plays like Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Philanderer, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, among others.
Shalita Grant Biography,
Shalita Grant is a brilliant American actress, born on August 28, 1988 in Petersburg, Virginia. The young talent auditioned for the play A Raisin in the Sun as Beneatha to be admitted to the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland, where she passed successfully. While there, she became a Presidential Award Winner in Arts and a YoungArts Winner in Drama.
In her senior year, when she was 17, she received a scholarship to study acting at the prestigious Juilliard School, following the advice of her teacher. Shalita has written two articles for the Juilliard newspaper and graduated in 2010 with BFA in Theater.
In 2006, Shalita Grant was part of the cast of the documentary Repeating a Dream which received an Oscar nomination and also appeared in the 2005 television series Bones. Adding to her profile, she has appeared in other series such as Good Wife (2009) and Melissa & Joey (2010). His film credit in include Empire Corner and Invisible both in 2010.
She made her stage debut in 2010 when she took part in the play The Merchant of Venice in New York. She made another Broadway debut in 2013 with the play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike from the Christopher Durang production and for her role as Cassandra in the play, Shalita Grant was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play. theatre; similarly, the play won Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play at the Tony Awards. She was again nominated and won the Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.
Grant’s credit in plays includes The Philanderer, Measure for Measure, A Winter’s Tale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream which she did with The Pearl Theater Company and The Public Theater productions, among others.
She moved to Los Angeles, California in the same year of 2013 in order to develop her career and the actress recalls that the first year was spent 54 auditions without even landing an acting role. As her savings were quickly running out, Shalita Grant had to take a job as a bartender in order to keep herself afloat.
In 2015, she got a breakthrough and landed a role in the police procedural series. NCIS: New Orleans as Special Agent Sonja Percy whose character was a former ATF agent. After the first season, Shalita became a series regular jogging from New Orleans, the series set to Los Angeles where she resided. This was the case until 2018 when she announced that she would be leaving the show.
With many asking the questions in order to determine her reasons for leaving the show, speculation began to mount referencing Brad Kern’s racial remarks and sexual harassment, but the African-American actress quickly debunked the theory. , confirming that she was not leaving the CBS television show because of this incident.
Shalita Grant left the show in 2018 and landed a recurring role on Diet Santa Clarita, a Netflix horror-comedy series where she played the character of FBI agent Tess Rogers.
Is Shalita Grant Married? husband, partner
Shalita Grant is gay and married. The talented TV star tied the knot with her partner, Sabrina Skau, on August 8, 2018, in a private ceremony attended by 25 guests and held at San Francisco City Hall. The gay couple met through a dating site in October 2016. Sabrina has since asked Shalita to marry her on Christmas Eve 2017 when they were wearing matching clothes.
According to Shalita, who was so happy to be married to Sabrina Skau, she chose San Francisco City Hall because that’s where the first same-sex wedding in California took place.
Body measurement – height
Julliard alumni wouldn’t brag with his height as it’s not one of his strongest physical attributes. She has, however, retained her charming body and complexion. Shalita Grant has a height measured at 1.5 m (4 feet 11 inches), which is less than the average height of women. His weight is rounded up to his height and measured at 48 kg.
