Tembi Locke

Tembi Locke, an American actress and writer, has built a career in soap operas, television, and film. Born in Houston, she began in New York with a part on As The World Turns, a long-running soap opera, then moved to Los Angeles, where her prime-time work started when she played a love interest for Will Smith on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She is best known for playing Dr. Grace Monroe on Eureka (2010 to 2012) and Dr. Diana Davis on Sliders (1999 to 2000). Her television credits include Castle, Bones, The Mentalist, Friends, and House of Payne. She appeared in the television movies Final Approach (2008) and Black Widow, and played Dr. Walcott in Dumb and Dumber To (2014). She also appeared in Flesh & Blood (2018), part of Hulu's Into the Dark, and wrote the bestselling memoir From Scratch, later adapted into a Netflix limited series.