Keesha Sharp

 Keesha Ulricka Sharp (nee Fleth; born June 9, 1973)is an American actress and film/television director. Before her role as Monica Charles Brooks on UPN/The CW's comedy show Girlfriends (2002-08), Sharp began her television career in dramas. Sharp was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, which is awarded to the best supporting actress in the field of a Comedy Series. (2007) and, between 2010 and 2013, she was a co-star on the TBS sitcom, Is We There Yet?. Sharp played Dale Cochran in The People v. O. J. Simpson - American Crime Story, an FX drama series. From 2016 to 2019, Sharp starred as Trish Murtaugh on the Fox police comedy-drama series Lethal Weapon, for which she won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.Sharp was born in Rochester, New York. Sharp began her career performing on stage when she completed her cum laude degree at The Boston Conservatory. She performed in the Broadway National Tour of Carousel and debuted off-Broadway in Michael Bradford's Living in the Wind and performed in eight roles in the interactive comedy Eat the Runt. Other theatre performances include Abyssinia and Thunder Knockin and Jitney. She was also a part in The Producers, Big Street and Suburb and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Before making the move to Los Angeles, she was an actress on Welcome to New York, Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.