S. Epatha Merkerson

Known for ActingBorn 1952-11-28 (age 73)Saginaw, Michigan, USA

S. Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, Obie Award, 4 NAACP Image Awards, and 2 Tony Award nominations. She is best known for her role as NYPD Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (1993–2010) on the long-running NBC police procedural drama series Law & Order, as well as the Law & Order TV movie Exiled. She appeared in 390 episodes of the series, more than any other cast member. She has a starring role as Sharon Goodwin on NBC's Chicago Med. She also had a recurring role as Reba (the mail carrier) on Pee-wee's Playhouse, and Ms. St. Marth on the TV series Here and Now. She has appeared in feature films including She's Gotta Have It, Loose Cannons, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Random Hearts, Radio, Black Snake Moan, Lincoln (2012), and Peeples. She has also appeared in TV movies including A Place for Annie, A Mother's Prayer, Breaking Through, Lackawanna Blues, and The Gabby Douglas Story.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Moe's World

Chicago P.D.

A Mother's Prayer

Chicago Fire

Chicago Med

Year by the Sea

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

The Closer

The Good Wife

Poker Face

Frasier

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Gabby Douglas Story

The Emmy Awards

Radio

Jacob's Ladder

Law & Order

Mann & Machine

After the SIlence

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Pee-wee's Playhouse

Lincoln

It's Nothing Personal

Black Snake Moan

The Cosby Show

Mother and Child

The Rising Place

We Grown Now

Finding Your Roots

We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918

Here and Now

She's Gotta Have It

Jersey Girl

Girl, Positive

Eye for an Eye

The Challenger

A Place for Annie

Lackawanna Blues

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Exiled

Peeples

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Random Hearts

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