Lunden De'Leon

Lunden De'Leon is an entertainer and entrepreneur who was born in Barbados and grew up in South Carolina. She headed to Hollywood to chase a career in entertainment, and an audition for modeling work brought her a one-year contract the same day. Her first screen role came on Vital Signs, the series made in Los Angeles and shown in Germany, in which she played a young woman trying to establish herself in the United States. More movie and television parts followed, among them the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! In 2003 she launched her own record label, Dirrty Records, later adding a second branch in South Carolina, with acts such as the punk band The Slumps and the British group The Fades on its roster. She was inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame in 2004 and went on to found Palmetto Film Studios in Marion, South Carolina.