Shari Lynn Belafonte was born on September 22,1954 and is an American actress, model and singer.
20 Facts About Shari Belafonte
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Shari Belafonte is best known for her role as Julie Gillette in the ABC drama series Hotel from 1983 to 1988.
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Shari Belafonte later went to star in the Canadian science fiction series Beyond Reality.
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Shari Belafonte released two studio albums in the 1980s, and acted on stage in later years.
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Shari Belafonte is the second daughter of Marguerite, a psychologist, and New York-born Harry Belafonte, a singer and actor.
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Shari Belafonte's parents separated when her mother was pregnant with her.
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Shari Belafonte attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC; Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts; and Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and then Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts before transferring to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drama.
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Shari Belafonte's paternal grandmother was born in Jamaica, the child of a Scottish Jamaican mother and an Afro-Jamaican father.
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Shari Belafonte's paternal grandfather was born in Jamaica, the child of a black mother and Dutch-Jewish father of Sephardic Jewish descent.
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Shari Belafonte began her career as a model, becoming a successful cover girl model and appearing in commercials for Calvin Klein jeans.
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Shari Belafonte made her feature film debut in 1982 in the movies Time Walker and If You Could See What I Hear.
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Shari Belafonte then worked as a production assistant and assistant director in public television on the East Coast before moving to Los Angeles, where she became an assistant to the publicist at Hanna-Barbera productions.
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In 1990, Shari Belafonte made her theatrical debut in Tamara, playing the title role in the long-running Los Angeles production.
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Shari Belafonte co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies in 1990s, including French Silk starring Susan Lucci, The Heidi Chronicles starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Babylon 5: Thirdspace and Loving Evangeline.
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Shari Belafonte has producing credits for theater, public and network television, and feature films.
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In December 2015, it was announced that Shari Belafonte would take over the role of Mayor Janice Lomax from Saidah Arrika Ekulona on January 19,2016, on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
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Shari Belafonte made her last appearance on December 20,2017.
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Shari Belafonte has been married twice, first to Robert Harper.
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Shari Belafonte has been married to Sam Behrens since December 31,1989.
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Shari Belafonte posed nude for Playboy in the magazine's September 2000 edition, and is herself an avid photographer.