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Actress/singer Sharon Leal was born on October 17, 1972, in Tucson, Arizona, but was raised in Fresno, California. Sharon began her career by acting in Community Theater when she was thirteen, and she is a graduate of Roosevelt High School of the Arts. She made her television debut in 1996 as Dahlia Crede in the CBS soap opera "The Guiding Light," and in 1998 she joined the Broadway production of "Rent," as well as the musical "Miss Saigon." However Sharon is best known for her role as young teacher Marilyn Sudor on the Fox series "Boston Public." In October 2001, she married Bev Land and they have a daughter Kai Miles Land. In her free time, she enjoys roller blading, dancing at clubs and reading.

So elegant and striking that she deservedly won Ebony magazine's Celebrity Beauty of the Month designation in January 2004 -- with the asset of outstanding dramatic instincts -- actress Sharon Leal achieved stardom in the early 2000s with her multi-season portrayal of no-nonsense schoolteacher Marilyn Sudor on David E. Kelley's groundbreaking small-screen drama Boston Public. The daughter of a Filipino military policeman and an African-American homemaker, raised by a succession of stepfathers, Leal graduated from Roosevelt School of the Arts in Fresno, CA, in 1990, and subsequently landed two ongoing dramatic roles, on the daytime soap Guiding Light and the prime-time UPN drama Legacy (1998). The Public role arrived two years after that, with Leal cast in the program from its inception; after the series folded, the actress segued into movie roles, with turns in the smash musical Dreamgirls (2006) and Tyler Perry's comedy drama Why Did I Get Married? (2007). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide



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