American media personality, actress, and model, born in Mount Vernon, New York, USA. She grew up in a middle-class family, her mother worked three jobs to support the family. She started her career in the field of modeling. She got the opportunity to get a role in the successful MTV reality series The Real World (1992), and her career took off after her divorce in 2001. She got various roles in many TV series and she gained fame in The Real World: Los Angeles (1993). She is known for Truth Be Told (2019-2023), Extant (2014), and Moonlight (2007-2008).