Born on April 22, 1967, in Chicago, Illinois, Sherri Shepherd has proved herself as the successful TV personality, comedian, actress as well as the author. She is best known as the co-host of “The View” which was broadcasted from ABC.
In her career, she has appeared on many different channels. She started her career from “Saturday Night Live” in the role of Cleghorne.
Later, from the same channel, she became the full-time comedian as well as an actress. She got a chance to work in many successful programs such as “Living Single”, “The Jamie Foxx Show”, “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Suddenly Susan”.
Before “The View”, she is popularly known as Ramona Platt on the comedy program “Less than Perfect.” Moreover, she has also appeared in many movies. Her roles have fulfilled the sector of comedy.
She was offered to play in the movies such as “Cellular”, “Precious”, “Beauty Shop”, “Guess Who”, “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” and “Out for the Money.”
She also works in Laugh Factory and Comedy Store still today. In 2006, she was offered to become the guest host in the traditional program of ABC, “The View”.
As she made her performance lively, she was recruited as a permanent host for this program in 2007. Because of her performances, she is also nominated as “Outstanding Talk Show Host” in Daytime Emmy Award.
In 2009, she won her 1st Emmy for the same category. She is also the author of “Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break”. She also published its 2nd edition which was “Permission to Date, Love, Marry and Divorce the Wrong Guy”. She also participated in “Dancing with the Stars” in 2012.
From 1995 to till today, she has appeared in more than 50 TV programs. She has made her debut in the movies from “King of the Open Mics” in 2000.
From the movie “Precious”, she has won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast as well as Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble. She also got nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble. She has also grabbed the Gracie Award for Leading Actress from “Sherri”.
Currently, she is working for “Top Five” and “Ride Along 2” which are due to release in 2014 and 2016 respectively. She has also appeared in the theater in 2014 in “Cinderella” as Madame.
Regarding her height, she is 5 feet 1 inch tall. She is 47 years of age. She has the weight of 76.7 kg and has the body measurements of 40-33-37 inch. She is also known for her hot and sexy legs.
She is a patient of type 2 diabetes. Because of this reason, she has tried for her weight loss. As her weight gain caused her to the real trouble, she lost 66 pounds in a year. She was married to Jeff Tarpley in 2001 and has 1 son.
They had expected for twin children. But she miscarried one child. They got divorced in 2005. She remarried and accepted Lamar Sally as her husband. This relation was also unsuccessful as Sally filed a divorce in the court.
She has the net worth of $8 million. If you want to know more about her biography, you can visit Wikipedia and IMDB. You can also follow her on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
You can also view her sexy pictures on various websites.