Contact Kellita Smith

Full Name:

Kellita Smith

• Olivia: "I Never Left"

  All Hip Hop - Found Nov. 6, 2009 Kellita Smith is in that one, it’s a great movie.

• REMEMBERING THE LADIES Comes To Upland 9/11

  Broadway World - Found Aug. 31, 2009 ... a successful World Premiere in Los Angeles In One Woman Two Lives, Samantha Cooke, played by Kellita Smith (Bernie Mac Show), a conflicted...

• ONE WOMAN, TWO LIVES Plays The Grove Theatre, Performs September ...

  Broadway World - Found Aug. 25, 2009 It's the powerful new smash summer hit One Woman, Two Lives starring Kellita Smith of The Bernie Mac Show, King's Ransom, and Three Can Play...

• At the theater, September 11

  San Bernardino County Sun - Found Sep. 11, 2009 Information: (909) 869-3900. One Woman Two Lives Story: Samantha Cooke, played by Kellita Smith (Bernie Mac Show), is fighting to sustain and...

• Three shows at Grove Theatre in Upland to focus on women

  Riverside Press Enterprise - Found Sep. 4, 2009 In the first, 'One Woman, Two Lives.' Kellita Smith of 'The Bernie Mac Show' heads a cast of actors with TV credits in the story of the wife...

• Smash Summer Hit "One Woman, Two Lives" Moves to the Grove Theatre ...

  PRWeb - Found Aug. 30, 2009 One Woman, Two Lives' Starring Kellita Smith (Bernie Mac Show) Moves to the Grove in Upland.

Kellita Smith extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Kellita Smith
Born	July 11, 1969 (1969-07-11) (age 40) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Years active	1993–present

Kellita Smith (born July 11, 1969) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Wanda McCullough on the sitcom, The Bernie Mac Show.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Awards and nominations 5 External links

Early life

Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1972, Smith's parents divorced and she and her brother Eric moved to Oakland, California to live with their mother. In 1989, Smith earned a degree in political science from the Santa Rosa Junior College. After taking early jobs as a saleswoman and an administrative assistant, Smith enrolled in an acting workshop.

Career

Smith has held recurring roles on CBS' Nash Bridges, UPN's Malcolm & Eddie, FOX Television's Martin, the WB's Jamie Foxx Show, Sister, Sister and ABC's NYPD Blue. She also guest starred on the sitcoms The Steve Harvey Show and The Parkers. She co-starred in Fox Searchlight's Kingdom Come starring Whoopi Goldberg, Miramax's The Crossing Guard with Jack Nicholson directed by Sean Penn and New Line Cinema's House Party 3. She developed her acting talent by a chance-casting in the play, Tell It Like It Tiz, which toured the U.S. for two years.

Other theatrical credits include the Los Angeles productions of No Place to be Somebody at the K.C. Theatre Company, Feelings (The Hudson Theatre) for which she won an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress, The Thirteenth Thorn (Complex Theatre) for which she was nominated for an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Actress, and One Woman Two Lives, which premiered at The Imagined Life Theater in July 2009.

Smith has appeared in magazines such as Savoy, People, TV Guide, Dysonna, Esquire, Black Men, Emmy, Fitness, Oil of Olay, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Jet, Today's Black Woman, Stuff, and Essence.

Filmography

• Three Can Play That Game (2008) — Carla
• Feel the Noise (2007) — Tanya
• Roll Bounce (2005) — Vivian
• King's Ransom (2005) — Renee King
• Fair Game (2005) — Cheryl
• Hair Show (2004) — Angela
• The Bernie Mac Show (2001-2006) TV Series — Wanda McCullough
• Nash Bridges (2001) TV Series Episode Kill Joy; Regina Adams
• Kingdom Come (2001) — Bernice Talbert
• Masquerade (2000) (TV) — Monica
• Retiring Tatiana (2000) — CeCe
• Q: The Movie (1999) — Mo Mo
• The Crossing Guard (1995) — Tanya
• House Party 3 (1993) — Maxine

Awards and nominations

• NAACP Image Awards
  • 2003: Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show
  • 2004: Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show
  • 2005: Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show
  • 2006: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show

• BET Comedy Awards
  • 2004: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show
  • 2005: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Nominated) - The Bernie Mac Show

External links

• Kellita Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• AskMen.com - Kellita Smith
• [1]