Keesha Sharp

Keesha Sharp is an American actress and television director who began her career in theater. Born in Rochester, New York, she graduated cum laude from The Boston Conservatory and appeared in a national tour of Carousel as well as Off-Broadway in Michael Bradford's Living in the Wind. In the interactive comedy Eat the Runt she took on eight different characters. She moved into television with guest roles on Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit before being cast in 2002 as Monica Charles Brooks on Girlfriends, which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination. Sharp played Sheila Ridenhour on Everybody Hates Chris and was a regular on the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet? from 2010 to 2013. Her film work includes Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003), Why Did I Get Married? (2007), and Marshall (2017). She starred as Trish Murtaugh on Lethal Weapon from 2016 to 2019 and played Dale Cochran in American Crime Story.