Sheila Carrasco
Sheila Carrasco is an American actress known for her role as Flower in the CBS show Ghosts. She has also appeared in The Good Place, Jane the Virgin, and American Housewife, and has made appearances in films like the Donor Party.
Early life and education
Carrasco was born in the South Side of Chicago. Her father was a pastor.Her interest in acting started from making home movies as a youth. She began acting at age 7 in a theater production of Annie.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing and Set Design at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts from Harvard University.
Career
Carrasco's first acting credit was a guest star role in the television show The Untouchables in 1993.She also performed at the American Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, Court Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, and the Groundlings. At Harvard's A.R.T Institute, she performed in The Discreet Charm of Monsieur Jourdain. At NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she performed in A Streetcar Named Desire, Life and Limb, Youth in Asia, Life is a Dream, Medea, The Merchant of Venice. At Steppenwolf Garage, she performed in The Philadelphia Story, Court Theater, Blue Window.
She is also a member of the theater company IAMA, where she performed a one-person show called Anyone but Me, which she wrote, about the Latin American experience and identity.
Carrasco wrote the short film, Piano Lessons, and wrote and starred in the short film, The Quake, about two L.A. residents whose lives were "destroyed" by a 1.1 magnitude earthquake.
She has made recurring appearances on shows including, The Beauty Inside, Get Lost, How to Survive High School, Me and My Grandma, Jane the Virgin, and #VanLife. She also appeared in podcast series the Carrier and The Edge of Sleep.
She stars in the hit CBS show Ghosts as a main character, Flower.