American actress S. Epatha Merkerson works for tv, stage and movie, and has an estimated net worth of $5 million. She was born Sharon Epatha Merkerson on November 28, 1952 in Saginaw, Michigan. She is a graduate of Cooley High School in 1970, later incomes a Bachelor of Fine Arts diploma from Wayne State University. In 1978, she started her New York theater profession. She was named an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Wayne State University in May 2009.
Merkerson began her skilled performing profession on stage in New York City and later moved to movie and tv. Getting herself a supporting function within the movie She’s Gotta Have It,  she additionally had guest-starring or recurring roles on tv reveals together with Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, The Cosby Show and Mann and Machine.
S. Epatha Merkerson grew to become a family identify as a solid of the long-running sequence Law & Order. She performed the function of Anita van Buren on the present for sixteen seasons and have become the longest-staying solid member. Her function additionally holds the longest-running African-American character on tv.
With the top of Law and Order in 2010, Mekerson continued to look in numerous movie, tv and theater tasks. She additionally gained a variety of awards equivalent to an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, an Obie, and 4 NAACP Image Awards, in addition to two Tony Award nominations.
S. Epatha Merkerson grew to become the host of Find Our Missing, a reality-enactment sequence on TV One in 2012. The present profiles lacking individuals of coloration.
