31 Facts About Sherri Shepherd

Sherri Evonne Shepherd was born on April 22,1967 and is an American actress, comedian, author, podcaster, and television presenter.

From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a co-host of the daytime talk show The View, for which she received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 2009.

Sherri Shepherd hosted Dish Nation from 2019 to December 2022, with her final months in limited episodes due to her talk show.

Sherri Shepherd's parents became Jehovah's Witnesses when Shepherd was a child.

Sherri Shepherd later became recognized for her role as Sheila Yarborough on Jamie Foxx's own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001 and for recurring roles on the sitcoms Suddenly Susan and Everybody Loves Raymond in the late 1990s, while starring in the show Less Than Perfect in the lead role of Ramona Platt from 2002 to 2006.

From 2005 to 2009, Sherri Shepherd had a recurring role as Sandra, the girlfriend of character Lenny Davidson, on the FOX sitcom The War at Home.

Sherri Shepherd recurred as Daphne during the final season of How I Met Your Mother in 2013.

Sherri Shepherd will produce and star in the comedy series pilot Black Don't Crack.

Sherri Shepherd has appeared as a guest host and contestant on several television shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Rachael Ray, and To Tell the Truth.

Sherri Shepherd co-hosted the 35th Daytime Emmy Awards on June 20,2008.

Sherri Shepherd hosted Nickelodeon's NickMom Night Out special from 2013 to 2014, Sherri Shepherd hosted Best Ever Trivia Show on Game Show Network for 65 episodes, beginning on June 10,2019.

Sherri Shepherd has appeared regularly as a panelist on Funny You Should Ask since 2017.

In 2006, Sherri Shepherd became a frequent guest co-host on ABC's daytime talk show The View.

Sherri Shepherd became a permanent co-host in 2007, debuting in September, when she replaced Star Jones.

Sherri Shepherd later referred to her statement as a "brain fart" brought on by nerves.

The View was often filmed "live", with little or no editing, so more criticism erupted after the December 4,2007, broadcast when, during a discussion initiated by Joy Behar about Epicurus, Sherri Shepherd attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions.

Sherri Shepherd garnered further criticism after admitting to never voting partly due to her upbringing as a strict Jehovah's Witness.

Sherri Shepherd cited having multiple abortions herself in her 20s, which caused her to suffer from shame and guilt due to those experiences.

In 2009, Sherri Shepherd won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host alongside Behar, Goldberg, Walters, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

In March 2012, Sherri Shepherd participated as a celebrity contestant on the fourteenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars finishing tenth; her dance partner was Val Chmerkovskiy.

In 2019, Sherri Shepherd participated in the second season of Fox's The Masked Singer as "Penguin".

From October 2021 to June 2022, Sherri Shepherd was among the recurring guest hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Wendy Williams Show, as its namesake Wendy Williams had been on an indefinite absence from the program due to her medical issues.

Sherri Shepherd wrote the book Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break, published in October 2009.

Sherri Shepherd has a co-author credit on Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes, published in 2013.

Sherri raises funds for the YAI Sherri Shepherd "Believe in Abilities" Fund.

In 2009, Sherri Shepherd appeared on an episode of WWE SmackDown as the guest manager for professional wrestler MVP, who competed against Dolph Ziggler in a match defending the WWE United States Championship.

In 2011, Sherri Shepherd offered to pay six months' rent and utilities of homeless former American Gladiators star Debbie Clark.

Sherri Shepherd was married to Jeff Tarpley from 2001 to 2010.

Sherri Shepherd became engaged to writer Lamar Sally on December 26,2010.

Sherri Shepherd has type 2 diabetes after having had pre-diabetes for years.

Formerly a Jehovah's Witness, Sherri Shepherd is currently an evangelical Christian.