Overview
- Her family and representative confirmed her death in a social media statement after choosing to grieve in private at first.
- Relatives said she died peacefully following a months-long fight with stage 4 lung cancer.
- Over three decades on television, she appeared in Dexter, NCIS: Los Angeles, The X-Files, ER, Seinfeld and Shameless, with a recent role as Valerie Barnes on Tyler Perry’s Sistas.
- Before acting, the Louisiana native served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps and later worked as a radio announcer in Japan, experiences that shaped her discipline on set.
- She had been adapting her one-woman show Poison Gun into a novel and is survived by her two children, Amber and Shane, as colleagues and her representative shared tributes.