Sherri Saum

Sherri Saum is an American actress known for roles in daytime soap operas and television dramas. Born in Dayton, Ohio, she was discovered at a modeling convention during high school and later worked with the New York agency Images Management. She played Vanessa Hart on the NBC soap Sunset Beach from 1997 to 1999, earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. She also appeared as Keri Reynolds on One Life to Live and in series including Beggars and Choosers, Rescue Me, and In Treatment. Saum became known as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform drama The Fosters, playing the role from 2013 to 2018 and reprising it in the spinoff Good Trouble. She also had a recurring and later series regular role in Locke & Key and played the adult Regina Louise in the biographical feature I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019).