Biography
Sheryl Lee Ralph 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 the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.
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Awards & recognition
- Women of the Year · 2023
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series/Musical-Comedy or Drama · 2023 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Musical · 1982 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Regular Show: The Lost Tapes
Weather Hunters
Young Justice
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Justice League Unlimited
Instant Mom
Justice League
Static Shock
The Parkers
Good Times
Motherland: Fort Salem
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
ER
The Proud Family
Barbershop
Hollywood Squares
The Real Red Tails
Abbott Elementary
Ray Donovan
RuPaul's Drag Race
Amazing Stories
MacGyver
The Jeffersons
2 Broke Girls
Hannah Montana
Las Vegas
Moesha
L.A. Law
Hunter
V
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
The Wild Thornberrys
Wonder Woman
One Mississippi
The District
Jeopardy!
No Sleep 'Til Christmas
To Sleep with Anger
Designing Women
Blessed and Cursed
Oliver & Company
Fashionably Yours
Fam
Step Sisters
Smash
The Jennie Project
The Daily Show
7th Heaven