Shalita Grant, an American actress who was born on August 28, 1988, is best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Sonja Percy on NCIS: New Orleans.
She also starred in Mercy Street, You, Santa Clarita Diet, and Search Party, among other shows.
Shalita Grant top movies and TV shows
Since the commencement of the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’s development as a one-act play, Grant has played the character of Cassandra.
She participated in the world premiere of the play with Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Genevieve Angelson, and Billy Magnussen in Princeton, New Jersey from September to October 2012 before it transferred to the Lincoln Center Theatre for an off-Broadway run from October 2012 to January 2013.
With a Broadway run and Grant’s Broadway debut from March through August 2013, the show’s success was maintained.
Shalita Grant awards and nominations
As Cassandra in the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Grant was nominated for a 2013 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Both the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the Tony Award for Best Play were given to the show. The 2013 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut went to her as well.
During the 2017 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in the Park, she went back to The Public Theater.
