S. Epatha Merkerson
Birthday: 28 November 1952, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Birth Name: Sharon Epatha Merkerson
Height: 168 cm
A native of Michigan, S. Epatha Merkerson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Wayne State University. In 1978, she moved to New York City to apply her craft on stage. Although best known since ...Show More
On playing Lola in "Come Back Little Sheba": I'm usually typecast as strong, authoritative, so to fi Show more
On playing Lola in "Come Back Little Sheba": I'm usually typecast as strong, authoritative, so to find that kind of vulnerability is a real challenge. But Lola is not so far from me, either. I was married, and I understand how to be lonely in a marriage. I believe she's in menopause. And that alone, hormonally, can send a woman into a tailspin. Add in her alcoholic husband, and (you've got) a decent person who's just, um ... stuck. In the past. But she's muuuch stronger than she thinks. Hide
My dad said he had a teacher named Epatha who was influential in keeping him in school. But my mothe Show more
My dad said he had a teacher named Epatha who was influential in keeping him in school. But my mother said it was an old girlfriend of his. So that's why she stuck in the Sharon Epatha. That's what the "S" stands for. Everyone knows now because some numbskull I went to high school with decided to put it on the Internet. Hide
S. Epatha Merkerson's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (155)
S. Epatha Merkerson'S roles
Tarissa Dyson
Bonnie
Maggie
Daphne Peeples
Angela
Dr. Rebecca Dioli
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