Shanola Hampton

Shanola Hampton is an American actress best known for playing Veronica Fisher on the Showtime dramedy Shameless. Born on Long Island, New York, she spent her first years there before being raised in Summerville, South Carolina, and she studied theater at Winthrop University, later earning a Master of Fine Arts in acting. She took a part in The Gift, a musical staged at the Tiffany Theater in Hollywood in 2000, and went on to appear in series such as Scrubs, Reba, Criminal Minds and Miami Medical. Her film work includes The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005) and Christmas in the City (2013). In Left 4 Dead 2, a video game, she provided the face of the character Rochelle. In 2010 she was cast as Veronica Fisher on Shameless, a role that drew critical acclaim, and in 2013 she co-starred in Things Never Said. She later starred in and produced the NBC series Found.