Sherri Shepherd

Her parents are LaVerne (1941-1991) and Lawrence A. Shepherd (born c. 1947).

Her parents became strict Jehovah's Witnesses when Shepherd was a child.

Due to many religious and non-religious issues her parents divorced when Sherri was very young.

Sherri Evonne Shepherd, (born April 22, 1967), is an American actress, comedian, author, broadcaster, podcaster, and television host.

She currently hosts the daily syndicated daytime talk show, Sherri.

Due to her mother's untimely death in 1991 after the divorce, her father became the sole parent for all three girls.

Shepherd's first television acting job was starring as Victoria Carlson in the short lived sitcom Cleghorne!, which aired for one season on The WB in 1995.

Shepherd later became recognized for her role as Sheila Yarborough on Jamie Foxx's own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001 and for recurring roles on the sitcoms Suddenly Susan and Everybody Loves Raymond in the late 1990s, while starring in the show Less Than Perfect in the lead role of Ramona Platt from 2002 to 2006.

She also starred in the sitcoms The Jamie Foxx Show (1999-2001), Less than Perfect (2002–2006), Sherri (2009), Trial & Error (2017–2018), and Mr. Iglesias (2019–2020).

From 2005 to 2009, Shepherd had a recurring role as Sandra, the girlfriend of character Lenny Davidson, on the FOX sitcom The War at Home.

In 2006, Shepherd became a frequent guest co-host on ABC's daytime talk show The View.

From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a co-host of the daytime talk show The View, for which she received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 2009.

In 2007, she played Rhonda in the IMAX rerelease version of Transformers.

From 2007 – 2013, she had a recurring role as Angie, the wife of character Tracy Jordan, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.

She became a permanent co-host in 2007, debuting in September, when she replaced Star Jones.

Shepherd encountered public criticism after a September 2007 broadcast of The View when she stated she did not "believe in evolution. Period."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her, "Is the world flat?" Shepherd responded, "I don't know," and expanded that she "never thought about it".

Shepherd later referred to her statement as a "brain fart" brought on by nerves.

Barbara Walters and Shepherd talked after that episode: Walters said, "Dear, the Earth is round", and Shepherd responded with: "Barbara, I know that!"

The View was often filmed "live", with little or no editing, so more criticism erupted after the December 4, 2007, broadcast when, during a discussion initiated by Joy Behar about Epicurus, Shepherd attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions.

When confronted on this point, she further claimed that "Jesus came first" (before Greeks and Romans) and stated, "I don't think anything predated Christians", to which Behar responded: "The Jews."

Shepherd garnered further criticism after admitting to never voting partly due to her upbringing as a strict Jehovah's Witness.

She was quoted as saying that she just "never knew the dates or anything"; she stated, "I've never voted for anything in my life."

She co-hosted the 35th Daytime Emmy Awards on June 20, 2008.

In 2009, she published the book Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break.

In 2009, she starred for one season in Lifetime Television's Sherri, a sitcom about Shepherd's life.

In 2012, she appeared as a contestant on the 14th season of the reality competition series Dancing with the Stars.

Shepherd had a recurring role as Angie Jordan on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a recurring role on the HBO Max series The Sex Lives of College Girls, and hosted the game show Best Ever Trivia Show.

Shepherd was born in Chicago, Illinois.

She is the eldest of three girls.

She recurred as Daphne during the final season of How I Met Your Mother in 2013.

In the same year, Shepherd appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical production of Cinderella.

Since leaving The View in 2014, Shepherd has continued to make several appearances on the show as a contributor throughout 2015 and 2016.

From 2017 to 2018, Shepherd portrayed Anne Flatch in NBC's mockumentary legal comedy series, Trial & Error.

She will produce and star in the comedy series pilot Black Don't Crack.

Shepherd has appeared as a guest host and contestant on several television shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Rachael Ray, and To Tell the Truth.

She has appeared regularly as a panelist on Funny You Should Ask since 2017.

She told Ebony in 2018, "That was the first job that I booked and I was still a legal secretary. My agent told me, 'You can quit your job.' I had that big break ... and then it was canceled. I lost my apartment, my car was repossessed and I was homeless for a year. I slept on everybody's couch. In this business, it's very uncertain. You can be working one day and not working the next."

She hosted Dish Nation from 2019 to December 2022, with her final months in limited episodes due to her talk show.

Shepherd also hosted Nickelodeon's NickMom Night Out special from 2013 to 2014, Shepherd hosted Best Ever Trivia Show on Game Show Network for 65 episodes, beginning on June 10, 2019.