Shamika Cotton
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Shamika Cotton | |
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Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
Other names | Shamika Lee Cotton |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2003–present |
Shamika Cotton is an American actress from Cincinnati, Ohio. She is perhaps best known to television viewers as Michael Lee's drug-addicted mother Raylene Lee in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.
Career[]
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Shamika Cotton graduated from Cincinnati's competitive School for Creative and Performing Arts.[1] In 2006, Cotton appeared on the I Wanna Be A Soap Star reality series to good reviews, and her performances from the show were also highlighted on Entertainment Tonight.
In November, 2007, Cotton launched a weekly videocast on YouTube entitled the “Shamika Chronicles”,[2] a series that follows her life and offers a realistic look at the daily life and work of an aspiring actress.
In 2019, Cotton briefly appeared on single episodes of six different television series, as well as a small part in the box office bomb The Sun Is Also a Star.
References[]
- ^ "Shamika Cotton official website". Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ^ "Shamika Chronicles". Youtube.com. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
External links[]
- African-American actresses
- American film actresses
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Actresses from Cincinnati
- Living people
- 21st-century American actresses
- 21st-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American people
- American theatre actor stubs