Charnele Brown
Charnele Brown is an American actress, producer, writer, fashion designer and singer. She is known for her roles as Paula in the 1992 film How Ya Like Me Now and as Kimberly Reese on NBC comedy sitcom A Different World from 1988 until 1993.
Biography
Brown is a graduate of East Hampton High School.Brown made her Broadway debut in 1989 as the first American member of the South African musical "Sarafina!" Other stage performances have included the roles of Polly and Delores in "The Trials and Tribulations of Stagger Lee Brown," Ruby in "The Lord's Will," Marty in "Sisters" and Mable in "My Diary." After A Different World ended, Brown guest starred on sitcoms such as Living Single, Martin, and Girlfriends. She made a brief appearance in a movie titled How Ya Like Me Now? that starred Darnell Williams and Salli Richardson.
In 2000, Brown founded The Charnele Brown Acting Academy at Yates High School in Houston, Texas.
Filmography
- The Cosby Show
- How U Like Me Now as Paula
- A Different World as Kimberly Reese
- Martin as Florence
- Living Single as Jackie
- Drop Squad as Kyra
- Tendrils
- Oliver Beene
- Girlfriends as Beverly
- My Wife and Kids as Nurse
- Bathsheba as Saul's Daughter
- City Girls as Bernice Jackson
- 5th Ward as Judge Hunter
- BKS, Best Kept Secret as Toni Benwah, also screenwriter
- Changes writer and producer
- Dilemma as Ms. Jones
- The Reading as Oda Brown
- Where Loyalty Lies as Capt. Wright