Biography
Who is Sherri Saum?
Early life and education
Sherri Saum was born in Dayton, Ohio. Her mother is German and her father is African-American. She began her path into the public eye after being discovered at a Model Search America convention near her home in Kettering, Ohio. During her high school years, she worked as a model, often during summer breaks before relocating to New York City. In New York, she worked full-time with an agency called Images Management.
For her formal education, she attended Ohio State University in Columbus. She also studied at New York University. These academic experiences helped shape her path before she committed fully to her professional acting career.
Acting career beginnings
She started her acting career on the NBC daytime soap opera Sunset Beach, portraying the character Vanessa Hart from 1997 to 1999. Her work on this show earned her a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. Following that role, she joined the cast of the Showtime comedy-drama series Beggars and Choosers for the 1999 to 2000 season.
From 2001 to 2003, she appeared in the ABC soap opera One Life to Live playing Keri Reynolds. Over the next decade, she built a resume with various television appearances. She played Natalie in the FX drama Rescue Me between 2006 and 2007. In 2009, she joined the HBO drama In Treatment as the character Bess for the second season.
Major roles and projects
In 2012, she was cast in the lead role of Lena Adams Foster for the ABC Family drama series The Fosters, which premiered in 2013 and ran for five seasons until 2018. Later, she reprised this character for the spinoff series Good Trouble. Her career continued with a recurring role as Ellie Whedon in the Netflix fantasy drama Locke & Key, which filmed in Canada.
She has appeared in a wide range of other television projects. Her credits include guest roles on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Librarians. She also acted in the film I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story as the adult version of the title character. Also, she was part of the cast for the Facebook Watch drama Limetown and appeared in the Starz series Condor and Power Book II: Ghost.
Personal life and family
She married Kamar de los Reyes, a former castmate from One Life to Live, on May 19, 2007, in New York City. The couple had twin children together in 2014. Also, she was a stepmother to the son of her husband. They remained married until his death from cancer on December 24, 2023.
Birthday and age
Sherri Saum was born on October 1, 1974, which makes Sherri 52 years old today. That birthday falls under the Libra sign. Sherri shares the date with 35 other famous people.
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