Jasmine Guy

Jasmine Guy is an American actress, singer, and dancer who portrays Sheila "Grams" Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World and Roxy in Dead Like Me.
==Biography==
Jasmine Guy was born to an African American father and a Portuguese American mother on March 10, 1962, in Boston, Massachusetts. Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School. Her mother's name is Jaye Rudolph, and her father, the Reverend William Guy, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Morehouse College and Spelman College) She later studied dance at Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City in 1981.
During the run of A Different World, she released her self-titled debut album in 1990, which spawned three singles: "Try Me", "Another Like My Lover", and "Just Want to Hold You." The album went on to sell 168,000 copies. In the spring of 2006, Jasmine Guy spoke to the graduating class at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and revealed that she will record a second album. She commented that of all the entertainment industries, the music industry was the worst. She will sell her new album online herself and not through a major label, similar to the marketing strategy used by Prince.
===Personal life===
She married Terrence Duckett in 1998. The couple have one child together, a girl named Imani, born in 1999. On April 8, 2008, people reported that the actress and her husband of nearly 10 years were divorcing due to irreconcilable differences.
Jasmine Guy was also a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she met through her costar on A Different World, Jada Pinkett Smith. Guy collaborated with Shakur's mother, Afeni, to write a biography of her life as a former Black Panther. The book, "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary," was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster and received critical acclaim for its poignancy
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Type 	Role
2009-2017	The Vampire Diaries 	TV Series 	Sheila Bennett
2017 	The Quad 	TV Series 	Grace Caldwell
2016-2017	K.C. Undercover 	TV Series 	Erica Martin / Erica King
2016 	The Substitute Spy 	 	G11
2016 	Chasing Waterfalls 	TV Movie 	Salma
2016 	Zoe Ever After 	TV Series 	Barbara Jean Johnson
2014-2015	If Loving You Is Wrong 	TV Series 	Mattaline
2014 	Ir/Reconcilable 	Short 	Robye
2014 	Big Stone Gap 	 	Leah Grimes
2014 	My Other Mother 	TV Movie 	Evelyn
2013 	Scary Movie 5 	 	Kendra's Mom
2012 	What About Us? 	Short 	Arlene Gomez
2012 	Kasha and the Zulu King 	TV Movie 	Ngazi
2012 	Let's Stay Together 	TV Series 	Jasmine Guy
2011 	October Baby 	 	Nurse Mary
2011 	Blossoms for Clara 	Short 	Clara Dukes
2010 	Change in the Wind 	 	Bessie Jordan (voice)
2010 	Drop Dead Diva 	TV Series 	Judge Nona Daniels
2010 	Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming 	 	Janice
2009 	My Parents, My Sister & Me 	TV Series 	Keela Goldman
2009 	Dead Like Me: Life After Death 	Video 	Roxy Harvey
2008 	Tru Loved 	 	Cynthia
2006 	The Heart Specialist 	 	
2006 	That's So Raven 	TV Series 	Pistáche
2003-2004	Dead Like Me 	TV Series 	Roxy Harvey
2002 	The Parkers 	TV Series 	Delilah
2002 	Cyberchase 	TV Series 	Ava, Queen of Symmetria
2001 	Dying on the Edge 	 	Micki
2001 	Feast of All Saints 	TV Movie 	Juliet Mercier
2000 	Diamond Men 	 	Tina
2000 	The Law of Enclosures 	 	
1998-2000	Linc's 	TV Series 	Courtney Goode / Courtney
1995-2000	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	TV Series 	Frog Princess Lylah / Jonae
1999 	Lillie 	 	Sylvia
1999 	Ladies Man 	TV Series 	Allegra
1999 	Any Day Now 	TV Series 	
1999 	Guinevere 	 	Linda
1999 	Partners 	TV Series 	Amanda
1998 	Madeline 	 	
1997 	Malcolm & Eddie 	TV Series 	Paige
1997 	Perfect Crime 	TV Movie 	Capt. Darnell Russell
1997 	Cats Don't Dance 	 	Sawyer (voice)
1995-1997	Touched by an Angel 	TV Series 	Kathleen
1996 	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 	TV Series 	Angela Winters
1996 	The Outer Limits 	TV Series 	Captain Teri Washington
1996 	America's Dream 	TV Movie 	Elna Du Vaul
1996 	Living Single 	TV Series 	Dr. Jessica Bryce
1995 	Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger 	TV Movie 	(voice)
1995 	Klash 	 	Blossom
1995 	NYPD Blue 	TV Series 	LaVonna Runnels
1995 	Melrose Place 	TV Series 	Caitlin Mills
1993 	Boy Meets Girl 	TV Movie 	Lena
1987-1993	A Different World 	TV Series 	Whitley Gilbert
1993 	Queen 	TV Mini-Series	Easter
1992 	Stompin' at the Savoy 	TV Movie 	Alice
1991 	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 	TV Series 	Kayla Samuels
1990 	A Killer Among Us 	TV Movie 	Theresa Hopkins
1989 	Harlem Nights 	 	Dominique La Rue
1989 	Runaway 	TV Movie 	Charlene 'Charlie'
1989 	Michael Jackson: Liberian Girl 	Video 	Jasmine Guy (uncredited)
1988 	School Daze 	 	Dina
1987 	At Mother's Request 	TV Mini-Series	Bank Teller
1986 	The Equalizer 	TV Series 	Gloria
1982 	Fame 	TV Series 	Fame Dancer
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==References==
==External links==
* IMDb
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