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Erika Alexander Biography

Erika Alexander (Erika Rose Alexander) is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist best known for her role as Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show from 1990 to 1992, and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998.

She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series,

Erika Alexander  Age

Alexander was born on November 19, 1969, in Winslow, Arizona, U.S. She is 49 years old as of 2018.

Erika Alexander  Height

Alexander is 5 inches.

Erika Alexander  Family

Alexander was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona until the age of 11, when she and her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is one of six children born to Shaun Alexander and Sammie Alexander, a school teacher, and children’s book author.

Erika Alexander: Education, School/College University

Erika went to Philadelphia High School. There she graduated her high school and later, she also joined Philadelphia Freedom Theatre to gain pragmatic knowledge about acting and also to know the ins and outs of the Film Industry.

Erika Alexander Marriage | Divorce

Unlike other celebrities, she has already been involved in a married life with Tony Puryear, artist/screen-writer. The most interesting fact about the relationship between Erika and Tony is that it’s already been 19 years of their marriage as they got married in 1997. This is something unusual in the celebrity world for so long term relationship.

One thing is sure that Erika Alexander and Tony Puryear are deeply in love with each other and are going to lead their life happily ever. Another interesting fact is, despite 19 years of marital status, they don’t bear any child as a sign of their love. Talking about her sexual orientation and past love life, her sexual orientation is straight and there’s no information about previous affairs.

Erika Alexander  Career

Alexander got her big break as Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. She later starred alongside Whoopi Goldberg in the 1990 civil rights epic The Long Walk Home. Perhaps her most memorable role was the acid-tongued attorney Maxine Shaw on the FOX sitcomLiving Single, a role she played for five years.

She is the co-creator and co-writer of Concrete Park, a science-fiction graphic novel with Tony Puryear.

In 1992, she appeared in the short-lived sitcom Going to Extremes, which centered on a group of American students at a medical school on a fictitious Caribbean island named Jantique. In 2002, she played probation officer Dee Mulhern in the Showtime series Street Time, which ran for two seasons. In international cinema, Alexander played the role of Hidimbi in Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Mahabharata. She also played a young Flora in the TV miniseries Mama Flora’s Family.

Her voice is featured on The Bible Experience. She appeared in Toni Braxton’s music video for “You’re Makin’ Me High”. In 2009, she appeared in Criminal Minds in the Season 4 episode, “The Big Wheel”, as Detective Lynne Henderson, who requests the BAU’s help in investigating a serial killer in Buffalo, New York. She also appeared in the 2009 film La Mission opposite Benjamin Bratt. In 2011, she appeared in season 7, episode 13 of House M.D.where she played the character, Ms. Fields.

Alexander has starred in season 2 of the Amazon original drama, Bosch, as Constance Irving. In 2017 she played Detective Latoya in the critically acclaimed horror film Get Out.

Erika Alexander  Net Worth

Erika Alexander is an American actress who has a net worth of $3 million dollars.

Erika Alexander Get Out

Then he sent me some weird pictures. I’m like, “Ah man, that’s Andre Hayworth.” This dude’s been missing for 6 months, right? So I do all my research, you know, ’cause as a TSA agent. You know, you guys are detectives. You know, I got the same training. We might know more than y’all sometimes, you know, ’cause we are dealing with some terrorist shit, so…

but that’s a totally different story. So look, I-I go do my… my detective work, right? And I start putting pieces together. And see, this is what I came up with. They’re probably abducting black people, brainwashing them and making them slaves… or sex slaves. Not just regular slaves, but sex slaves and shit. See? I don’t know if it’s the hypnosis that’s making ’em slaves or what not, but all I know is they already got two brothas we know and there could be a whole bunch of brothas they got already. What’s the next move?

Erika Alexander Cosby Show

Erika Alexander on Bill Cosby: “He Wasn’t Who We All Thought He Was”

Actress Erika Alexander is best known for her roles on “The Cosby Show” as Pam Tucker and “Living Single” as Maxine Shaw made her debut on The Breakfast Club This morning. In the interview, she spoke about a number of things ranging from racism in Hollywood to not even watching “Living Single” until the show had ended its run. But the most shocking thing she spoke about was her time working on “The Cosby Show” with Bill Cosby himself.

On “The Cosby Show” Erika played the recurring main role of Pam Tucker appearing in 20 episodes from Seasons 7 to 8 of the shows run. The character moved in with The Huxtable family after her mother moved away. During her interview with The Breakfast Club, she spoke on how she got booked to play Pam saying that she had auditioned for the snow numerous times for varying rolls but didn’t get anything concrete for awhile till they made the role of “Cousin Pam” for her.

In the Interview, Charlamagne Tha God asks Erika “Did you see this sinister energy that Lisa Bonet saw” referring to a recent interview Bonet had done where she commented on Cosby saying “But…There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed,”. Her response was “Unfortunately you know he wasn’t who we all thought he was and it was disappointing and it’s painful. I think I saw things that I thought were cruel at the time but I had also been raised in a cruel world.”

Erika goes on to talk about how Cosby never made an advance on her and how going into the show she didn’t expect him to be the way he was. When asked to give an example of Cosby’s “cruelty” she said:

“Well you know I think when you’re the biggest star in the world after a while it goes to your head and you forget yourself, you forget that you’re representing not only the show but your representing who people think you are. So when you go in I don’t expect the person to be goody-goody, but you do expect them to have a class about things and sometimes it’s just violating and you go “I just didn’t expect that” You can check out the full clip of her speaking on Bill Cosby below.

Erika Alexander Marriott

I was recently in Atlanta to visit our hotels and hold a town hall meeting with our associates, including two very interesting and successful women. I’d like to share their stories with you because their journeys up the ranks of our company are great examples of where hard work and determination can take you.

First I want to tell you about Erika Alexander. She began her career as a sales manager for a Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia in 1989. She worked her way up to become a general manager, and was contacted by the Residence Inn brand leader at the time and asked to join the brand team at our headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

Erika gained great experience working on this team and was soon tasked with helping Marriott launch a new brand, TownePlace Suites. Since then, she has held many positions in a variety of different locations and disciplines, making her an extremely well-rounded, experienced and knowledgeable contributor to our company. Today she serves as the area vice president for 21 of our full-service hotels in the southern region of the United States.

Erica Qualls began her career with Marriott on the opposite side of the country as a phone operator at the Santa Clara Marriott in California in 1993. She only planned to work part-time in order to help her husband support their family of four children, but she fell in love with her job and the industry and made it full time.

She moved around to different departments including human resources, finance, and operations, and worked for several brands. Today, she is the general manager of the third largest Marriott 3, hotel, the 1,500 room Atlanta Marriott Marquis. We have 3,500 hotels, so she’s really up there.

When I was together with both of these women, Erica Qualls, who spells her name with a “c,” told Erika Alexander, who spells her name with a “k,” that Erica ending with “-ca” was the correct spelling of their first names, otherwise America would be spelled with a “k.”

Both of these women have incredible success stories and should serve as an example to others just beginning their careers with Marriott or any other company. Working hard, trying new things and gaining as much experience as possible are all essential to growing both personally and professionally. I congratulate Erika and Erica on their tremendous achievements and thank them for their great contributions.

Erika Alexander And Tc Carson

It’s A ‘Living Single’ Reunion With Erika Alexander And Terrence Carson

Two stars from the iconic 90s sitcom Living Single were seen hanging out recently and we are here for all of it! Erika Alexander, who played sassy lawyer Maxine Shaw in the sitcom posted a photo on Instagram of herself hanging out with former co-star Terrence ‘T.C.’ Carson. Carson played the pretentious stockbroker Kyle, who hated to love Maxine.

“Toasting 25 years with a good friend,” Alexander captioned the photos. They both look great! The 1993 sitcom followed the lives of four single roommates as they navigate life and love in Brooklyn. The series stars Alexander, Queen Latifah, Kim Coles, and Kim Fields with John Henton and Carson. The full series recently debuted on Hulu earlier this year to great praise. But we are still waiting for the reboot after Latifah confirmed last year that it was in the works.

“We’re actually working on it. It’s not there yet. But, hopefully, we can get it happening,” she told Andy Cohen during Watch What Happens Live. The popular show received two Emmy nominations and won an Image Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Former President Barack Obama is headed to Africa this week, and he used his upcoming trip as the inspiration behind his summer reading list recommendations. “This week, I’m traveling to Africa for the first time since I left office – a continent of wonderful diversity, thriving culture, and remarkable stories,” he wrote in a Facebook post.

According to Obama, he will be heading first to South Africa, where he is expected to give a speech to mark the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth and to convene the inaugural meeting of the Obama Foundation young African fellows. Then he will head to Kenya to visit his ancestral home.

He shared six books on his reading list, five of which are written by African authors: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong’s, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Return by Hisham Matar and The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes.

“Over the years since, I’ve often drawn inspiration from Africa’s extraordinary literary tradition,” he wrote. “As I prepare for this trip, I wanted to share a list of books that I’d recommend for summer reading, including some from a number of Africa’s best writers and thinkers – each of whom illuminate our world in powerful and unique ways.”

Erika Alexander  Movies | TV Shows

Film

Year

Title

Role

2019I See YouLieutenant Moriah Davis
2017Get OutDetective Latoya
2016Brave New JerseyHelen Holbrook
2014Elsa & FredLaverne
2014Secrets of the Magic CityMs. Fletcher
2009La MissionLena
2006Déjà VuShanti
2004TricksLaurel
2002Love LizaBrenda
2002Full FrontalLucy
200130 Years to LifeJoy
199854Ciel
1992Fathers & SonsVenell
1991He Said, She SaidRita
1990The Long Walk HomeSelma Cotter
1989The MahabharataMadri, Hidimbaa
1986My Little GirlJoan

Television

Year

Title

Role

1986George Washington II: The Forging of a NationOney
1989The MahabharataMadri / Hidimbi
1990Common GroundCassandra Twymon
1990The Last Best YearAmy
1990Law & OrderDoris Carver
1990–1992The Cosby ShowPam Tucker
1992–1993Going to ExtremesCheryl Carter
1993–1998Living SingleMaxine “Max” Felice Shaw
1998Mama Flora’s FamilyYoung Flora
1999KnitWits RevisitedAmina
2001Judging AmyFran Winston
2001The Zeta ProjectAgent Rush (voice)
2002–2003Street TimeDee Mulhern
2004Law & Order: Special Victims UnitKema Mabuda
2004LAXAllison
2005Half & HalfMaxine Shaw
20057th HeavenLynn Miles
2006Sixty Minute ManJane
2006In JusticeAlyssa Hill
2006HeistSaundra Johnson
2006ERVatima Abika
2007Side Order of LifeColette
2007CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationA.D.A. Kirkson
2007Numb3rsU.S. Marshal Tricia Yaegger
2007CSI: MiamiTanya Thorpe
2009Criminal MindsDet. Lynne Henderson
2010In Plain SightTheresa Simmons
2011HouseMs. Fields
2012SuburgatoryGloria
2012SuitsSarah Leighton
2012–2015Last Man StandingCarol Larabee
2013Low Winter SunLouise “LC” Cullen
2014Let’s Stay TogetherBlanche
2014NCIS: New OrleansNavy Commander Louanne Bates
2015Grey’s AnatomyJohanna McKay
2016–2017BoschConnie Irving
2016Recovery RoadTrish’s Mother
2016Queen SugarLeAnne
2017BeyondTess Shoemaker
2018–presentBlack LightningPerenna

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Erika Alexander And T.C. Carson Reunite To Celebrate 25 Years Of Living Single

One thing we loved most about Living Single, aside from the relationships of the three different roommates (and their hilarious neighbors), was the dynamic between Maxine Shaw and Kyle Barker. The attorney and stockbroker consistently teased one another, but as we all suspected, it was because they secretly knew they were better off as complicated love interests.

We missed their banter, but thankfully, Hulu and iTunes streams all Living Single episodes. And not only that, but the two, in real life, are still close! Just friends, though.

Erika Alexander and T.C. Carson reunited in June when she helped honor him at The Vision Community Foundation black tie gala in Atlanta, and they came together again over the weekend to celebrate 25 years of Living Single. Alexander, 48, and Carson 59 looked great:

During a recent interview with The Muse, Alexander talked about the impact of the show and how the cast was lucky to have been part of a time where Black representation on television was so prevalent and positive.

“It was a time where black people were magical and it went away. Literally, they segregated TV after the year 2000,” she said. “They had a few shows, Bernie Mac and Chris Rock, but for the most part it went away until Shonda Rhimes proved, with her excellence, that we were profitable and worth betting on again. That’s shocking. And we rode the end of that wave. I want to tell people, what they should know about the show is we were well aware of being fortunate, but we also thought we belonged, and it was because of all the people that we had seen, from Good Times on. We knew we were standing on the shoulders of those people and, frankly, it’s everything in life to know that. I think it’s like being in an HBCU, like Different World, where you’re aware of your importance but you also know that you got a job to do, you got something to prove. We hope we proved it.”

Love seeing these two together again! If this reunion gives you the warm fuzzies, hit the flip for more recent Black TV show (and film) reunions.

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