Netta Walker


Netta Walker is an American actress. She is best known for playing Keisha McCalla in the sports drama series All American as well as its spinoff series All American: Homecoming.
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Early life

Walker was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1996 to a Filipino mother and African-American father. They met in the Philippines when her father was serving in the army. She has three older brothers. She attended two HBCUs, Edward Waters University and Stanton College Preparatory School. She was inspired to become to an actress thanks to her high school theatre teacher Shirley Sacks Kirby who saw her potential.

Career

While studying in Roosevelt University in Chicago she performed in numerous plays suchs as Hamlet and Great Expectations. In 2019 she received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Supporting Actor for her performance in the Raven Theater's production of Yen. Her first big role came playing Keisha McCalla in the superhero series All American. Her biggest role so far has been playing the same character in the spinoff series All American: Homecoming. She hopes in the future to act in a romance film as well as to have an opportunity to play a villain that audiences will find hard to dislike.

Personal life

She is very passionate about her Philippine roots and she visited the country for the first time when she was 16 to celebrate her deceased grandmother's birthday.