Arnetia Walker

Arnetia Walker

Acting
Born 1956-01-01 Columbus, Georgia, USA 8 credit(s) Popularity 0.4
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arnetia Walker (born 1956) is an American actress whose most famous roles are as Nurse Annie Roland in the NBC sitcom Nurses and Ms. Ross in the WB dramedy Popular. Born in Columbus, Georgia, Walker was attending New York’s prestigious High School of the Performing Arts when she was cast in her Broadway debut, "The Sign in Sidney Brustien’s Window" by Lorraine Hansberry. She we...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arnetia Walker (born 1956) is an American actress whose most famous roles are as Nurse Annie Roland in the NBC sitcom Nurses and Ms. Ross in the WB dramedy Popular.

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Walker was attending New York’s prestigious High School of the Performing Arts when she was cast in her Broadway debut, "The Sign in Sidney Brustien’s Window" by Lorraine Hansberry. She went on to stand by for Stephanie Mills as Dorothy in the original Broadway run of The Wiz. In 1987 she starred in the Broadway revival of Dreamgirls in the role of Lorrell Robinson, and eventually achieved the distinction of being the only woman to have played all three of that show’s principal characters.

In March 2008 Arnetia can be seen in the role of Grandma Clara in the feature film comedy College Road Trip, starring Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné.

Walker’s films include For Love of the Game, Love Crimes, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She also appeared in the HBO movie Cast a Deadly Spell. She has worked extensively in television, including as a series regular in the ABC sitcom The Big House, Camp P, the NBC sitcom, Nurses, and as a guest star in Everybody Loves Raymond, City of Angels, Touched by an Angel, The Steve Harvey Show, Just Shoot Me, and NYPD Blue.

She is married to television news anchor/reporter Elliott Francis, and they have one child, Trevor.

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Bookie poster
Bookie
as Grandma Marion
2023-11-30
The Big House poster
The Big House
2004-04-02
Popular poster
Popular
as Ms. Ross
1999-09-29
Judging Amy poster
Judging Amy
as Laura Evans
1999-09-19
Just Shoot Me! poster
Just Shoot Me!
as Tisha
1997-03-04
Everybody Loves Raymond poster
Everybody Loves Raymond
as Friendly Mom
1996-09-13
The Steve Harvey Show poster
The Steve Harvey Show
as Judge Maxine Sharp
1996-08-25
Touched by an Angel poster
Touched by an Angel
as Sweeney
1994-09-21

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