- Data di nascita
- Nome alla nascitaSharon Epatha Merkerson
- Altezza1,68 m
- S. Epatha Merkerson è nata il 28 novembre 1952. Luogo di nascita: Usa. È conosciuta come attrice e produttrice. È celebre per aver partecipato a Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia (1990), Lackawanna Blues (2005) e Allucinazione perversa (1990). È stata sposata con Toussaint Louverture Jones Jr..
- ConiugeToussaint Louverture Jones Jr.(20 marzo 1994 - 14 febbraio 2006) (divorziato)
- When walking the streets of New York she is frequently approached by members of the NYPD, who jokingly ask how they can be transferred to her precinct.
- Her Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia (1990) character, Lt. Anita Van Buren, whom she has played since 1993, is the longest running African American character in an American television drama.
- She appeared in 391 episodes of Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia (1990), more than anyone else. Consequently, Lt. Anita Van Buren is the most prolific female character in the history of US primetime television.
- She wears a wig on Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia (1990) to cover up her "twist-locs", which have since been cut off and replaced by short-length hair.
- Her sister is a lung-cancer survivor.
- My dad said he had a teacher named Epatha who was influential in keeping him in school. But my mother said it was an old girlfriend of his. So that's why she stuck in the Sharon Epatha. That's what the "S" stands for. Everyone knows now because some numbskull I went to high school with decided to put it on the Internet.
- On playing Lola in "Come Back Little Sheba": I'm usually typecast as strong, authoritative, so to find that kind of vulnerability is a real challenge. But Lola is not so far from me, either. I was married, and I understand how to be lonely in a marriage. I believe she's in menopause. And that alone, hormonally, can send a woman into a tailspin. Add in her alcoholic husband, and (you've got) a decent person who's just, um ... stuck. In the past. But she's muuuch stronger than she thinks.
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