Keesha Sharp

 Keesha Ulricka (nee Flett; June 9 1973) is an American actress. She is also a television and film director. She started her career by appearing on television dramas, before her regular part as Monica Charles Brooks in the comedy series UPN/The CW, Girlfriends (2002-08), for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.Sharp later has been in movies such as American Adobo (2002), Why Did I Get Married? She starred in Are We Still There Then What? on TBS from 2010 until 2013. In 2016, she portrayed Dale Cochran, the wife of Johnnie Cochran, in the FX drama series anthology, The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Sharp played the role of a police officer in Fox's comedy-drama series Lethal Weapon from 2016 to 2019. She was born in Rochester. After graduating from cum laude at The Boston Conservatory, Sharp set her sights on the stage. She was in the Broadway National Tour of Carousel as well as a debut Off-Broadway production of Michael Bradford's Living in the Wind and was in eight roles in the interactive comedy Eat the Runt. Other performances in the theatre 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. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, she was the guest in Welcome to New York, Third Watch and Law & Order Special Victims Unit.