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Who is Khandi Alexander?
Khandi Alexander is a American veteran performer who started her show business career at the mid-1980s as a dancer. She cried in performing in the early 1990s and has since featured in plenty of movies and TV shows. The Emmy nominee has had remarkable roles in TV shows likeNewsRadio (1995 — 1998), ER (1995-2001), CSI: Miami (2002 — 2009), where she’s best understood, Treme (2010 — 2013), in addition to a recurring part in Shonda Rhime’s Scandal as Olivia Pope’s (Kerry Washinton) scheming mother Maya. Continue reading for what there is to learn about Alexander.
Khandi Alexander Bio/Wiki
Alexander was created onSeptember 4, 1957, in nyc, toAlverina Yavonna andHenry Roland Alexander. Her motherAlverina Yavonna was an opera singer and a jazz singer while her daddy Henry owned a building company.Khandi attendedQueensborough Community College. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Khandi chose amusement for a career route beginning for a dancer and choreographer in 1985. Khandi started dancing on Broadway emerging inBob Fosse’s Dancin, Chicago and Dreamgirls. Khandi’s theater profession immediately pushed her into working together with big names such as Whitney Houston. She had been on Houston’sworld excursion from 1988–1992. ” Khandi made her television debut in 1985 playing different characters onsketch-comedy series FTV. Her acting career immediately gained momentum because she became increasingly busy both to the small and large screens. From the early 1990s, Khandi appeared in movies including asCB4,Joshua Tree,Menace II Society,What’s Love Got to do with It,Poetic Justice,Sugar Hill,House Party 3, andGreedy (1994). According to NewsRadio, Khandi had a recurring part asJackie Robbins on “ER. ” Some of the notable movies in the first 2000’s comprise;Emmett’s Mark,Black Blue, andPerfect Strangers. After taking guest characters in several of TV shows fromCosby into Third Watch, Khandi landed her following show regular role as Dr. Alexx Woods inCSI: Miami. The character propelled her into widespread fame and garnered her aNAACP Picture Award forOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Khandi’s following series regular part came asLaDonna Batiste-Williams at Treme (2010 — 2013) until she had been called to play with Mama Pope at ABC’s Scandal for which she earned an Emmy forOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Khandi Alexander is showing no signs of slowing as she proceeds to expand her filmography in both TV and film. Resources estimate her net worth to be $8 million.william bonner
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Despite her popularity, Khandi Alexander was able to live her personal life far from the prying eyes of the media. No info about her family has ever been made public, despite a number of research about spouse and her loved ones. It isn’t apparent if Alexander has been married to anybody or if she’s children. Nonetheless, in a 2013 interview with E! regarding her role as Mama Pope on Scandal,” Alexander made mention of having a boyfriendbut regrettably, the freshman didn’t ask her longer on this particular subject. Throughout the dialogue with E! Khandi was requested “Tell us what you can about Mama Pope. Was described for you? ” She responded; “That really is actually the very best part. And he said, ‘The one thing I could tell you is you’re Mama Pope and also you are able to ‘t tell anyone anything. Would you like it or overlook ‘t you? ‘ I stated, ‘that I ‘m in and that I won’t say anything. ‘ And that I didn’t tell anybody. I didn’t tell my broker, my boyfriend, my supervisor. I didn’t tell anyone and that I didn’t understand anything….They knew I had been doing the series but they didn’t understand anything about what I had been playing. ” Mentioning about her boyfriend at a meeting? Well, while that’s all buffs get to understand, it’s, if anything else, relieving to know Khandi isn’t being starved of amorous love.
