Shalita Grant was born on August 28,1988 and is an American actress best known for portraying NCIS Special Agent Sonja Percy on NCIS: New Orleans.
10 Facts About Shalita Grant
Shalita Grant is known from her roles on Mercy Street, You, Santa Clarita Diet, and Search Party.
Shalita Grant attended Appomattox Regional Governor's School For the Arts and Technology for a year before transferring to the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland, where she was a YoungArts Winner in Theater and Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Shalita Grant originated the role of Cassandra in Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike since the beginning of the show's development as a one-act play.
Shalita Grant performed alongside Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Genevieve Angelson, and Billy Magnussen in the world-premiere at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ from September to October 2012 before moving to the Lincoln Center Theatre in an off-Broadway run October 2012 to January 2013.
Shalita Grant was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2013 for her performance as Cassandra in the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Shalita Grant won the 2013 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.
Shalita Grant returned to The Public Theater in 2017 for the Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In 2020, Shalita Grant recurred on the third season of HBO Max's Search Party in the role of first-time, in over-her-head attorney Cassidy.
In October 2020, it was announced that Shalita Grant had been cast in the main role of Sherry Conrad on the third season of the Netflix thriller series You.