Tichina Rolanda Arnold is an American actress and singer.
16 Facts About Tichina Arnold
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Tichina Arnold began her career as a child actor, appearing in supporting roles in Little Shop of Horrors and How I Got into College before being cast as Pamela "Pam" James on the FOX sitcom Martin, which she portrayed from 1992 until the show ended in 1997.
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Tichina Arnold was born in Queens, New York City, to a working-class family.
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Tichina Arnold's mother, Diane, was a sanitation worker and her father Gene Arnold was a police officer.
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Tichina Arnold was raised in the Church of God in Christ.
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In February 1987 Tichina Arnold scored her first big break on television, with a permanent role on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.
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Tichina Arnold's critically lauded role, as young heroine Zena Brown, landed her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1988.
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Tichina Arnold continued in the role until the series ended in January 1989.
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Later that year, Tichina Arnold was cast as Sharla Valentine, a high-school friend of Emily Ann Sago on the ABC-TV daytime drama All My Children.
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Tichina Arnold played the recurring role of Nicole Barnes on the sitcom One on One.
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Tichina Arnold played the role of the matriarch, Rochelle, on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris which premiered in September 2005 and ended in May 2009.
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Tichina Arnold played the voice of the friend in The Boondocks episode "Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch", which aired in 2007.
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In 2009, Tichina Arnold appeared onstage in The Wiz revival at the New York City Center in the part of Evillene, The Wicked Witch of the West.
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Tichina Arnold played the best friend of Fran Drescher in the TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced, which is based on Fran Drescher's real-life marriage and divorce to series co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson.
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In 1998, Tichina Arnold started her own company of designer headgear called "China Moon Rags".
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In January 2016, Tichina Arnold's representative confirmed she and Hines were divorcing.