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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

107

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-12-30 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Also Known As

쉐릴 리 랠프

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Biography

Sheryl Lee Ralph OJ (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021, she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.

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Acting

2025		The Disappearance of Miss Scott as Hazel Scott (voice)
2025		Ricky as Joanne

2024		The Fabulous Four as Kitty
2024		The Real Red Tails as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023		Young Love as Additional Voices (voice)
2023		The Young Wife as Angelique

2022		Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 as Self
2022		The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		How We Roll as Loretta

2021		Abbott Elementary as Barbara Howard
2021		Christmas in My Heart as Ruthie Sampson
2021		Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2021		Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts as Self
2021		Celebrity Wheel of Fortune as Self - Contestant

2020		Christmas Comes Twice as Ms. Nelson
2020		Fashionably Yours as Janet
2020		Motherland: Fort Salem as President Kelly Wade

2019		Christmas Hotel as Marnie
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019		Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019		A Black Lady Sketch Show as Asia's Mother
2019		Fam as Rose

2018		No Sleep 'Til Christmas as Mrs. Wright
2018		Forbidden
2018		Step Sisters as Yvonne Bishop

2017		Christmas at Holly Lodge as Nadine
2017		Just Getting Started as Roberta
2017		Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
2017		The Quad as Ula Pettiway

2016		MacGyver as Mama Colton
2016		One Mississippi as Felicia

2015		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015		The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest

2014		Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self

2013		Instant Mom as Maggie Turner
2013		Ray Donovan as Claudette

2012		Christmas in Compton as Abuta
2012		Smash as Cynthia Moore
2012		Ladies of the Church

2011

2 Broke Girls as Genét

2010		Young Justice as Amanda Waller (voice)
2010		Blessed and Cursed as Lady Wright

2009

RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge

2008

The Wendy Williams Show

2006

Hannah Montana as Clarice Johnson

2005

Barbershop as Claire

2004

Justice League Unlimited as Cheetah (voice)

2003		Las Vegas
2003		Whoopi as Florence

2001		Justice League as Cheetah (voice)
2001		The Proud Family as Diana Parker (voice)
2001		The Jennie Project as Dr. Pamela Prentiss

2000		The District as Lt. Dee Banks
2000		Static Shock as Trina Jessup (voice)
2000		Deterrence as Gayle Redford
2000		Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel as Nurse

1999		The Parkers
1999		Hook'd Up as Chantal

1998		Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
1998		Hollywood Squares as Self
1998		The Wild Thornberrys as Lioness #2 (voice)

1997

Jamaica Beat as Sylvia Jones

1996		Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Zsa Zsa Goowhiggie
1996		Bogus as Ruth Clark
1996		7th Heaven as Nurse
1996		The Daily Show as Self
1996		Lover's Knot as Charlotte
1996		The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self
1996		Moesha
1996		Moesha as Dee Mitchell

1995

White Man's Burden as Roberta

1994		Witch Hunt as Hypolita Kropotkin
1994		ER as Gloria Gallant
1994		The Flintstones as Mrs. Pyrite

1993		Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Florence Watson
1993		George

1992		The Distinguished Gentleman as Miss Loretta
1992		Vicki! as Self
1992		Mistress as Beverly Dumont

1991		The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw as Miss Rosalee
1991		Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member

1990		To Sleep with Anger as Linda
1990		New Attitude as Vicki St. James
1990		Max Monroe: Loose Cannon

1989		Skin Deep as Receptionist
1989		The Mighty Quinn as Lola Quinn

1988		Oliver & Company as Rita (voice)
1988		LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest

1987		Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987		Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies as Corelle

1986		Designing Women as Etienne Toussant Bouvier
1986		L.A. Law as Renee Quintana

1985		Amazing Stories as show singer
1985		Code Name: Foxfire as Maggie Bryan
1985		Code Name: Foxfire as Maggie 'The Cat' Bryan

1984		V as Glenna
1984		Hunter as Josie Clifford

1982

The Neighborhood as Doris Campbell

1981

Falcon Crest as Mooshy Tucker

1980

It's a Living as Ginger St. James

1977

A Piece of the Action as Barbara Hanley

1975		Wonder Woman as Bobbie
1975		The Jeffersons

1974

Good Times

Directing

1999

The Parkers as Director

Sound

1990

New Attitude as Theme Song Performance