Sharon Leal Biography
Sharon Leal is a singer and actress from the United States. Leal began her career as Dahlia Crede in the CBS daytime drama Guiding Light.She is best known for her roles in Dreamgirls (2006), This Christmas (2007), Why Did I Get Married? (2007).
Sharon Leal Age
Leal was born Sharon Ann Leal on October 17, 1972, in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America. She is 50 years old as of October 2022.
Sharon Leal Height
Sharon stands at a height of 5’8″ (173 cm) tall.
Sharon Leal Parents- Family
Leal was born in the Arizona city of Tucson. Angelita, her mother, is Filipina. Sharon’s father was an African-American military police officer who divorced her mother before Sharon was born. Her mother married Jesse Leal, a Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force and a police officer at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, shortly after, and he legally adopted Sharon.
Sharon Leal Husband-Son
Leal met actor and aspiring filmmaker Bev Land in 2000, the two began dating. Kai Miles, their son, was born in September 2001. They married in October 2001. They divorced in 2007, however. She has reportedly been dating actor, director, and choreographer Paul Becker since 2010.
Sharon Leal Career
Leal began her career as Dahlia Crede in the CBS daytime drama Guiding Light. She later joined the Broadway production of Rent. She was soon cast as Mimi in the San Francisco leg of Rent’s first national tour. Leal co-starred with Patrick Wilson and Jesse L. Martin in the original cast recording of the Off-Broadway musical Bright Lights, Big City in 1999. She also appeared in the Making Tracks cast recording in 2001. Leal appeared in the Fox prime-time television series Boston Public. She also appeared in the theatrical film Face the Music. She then had a recurring role as the wife of airport co-director Roger de Souza in the short-lived NBC series LAX.
She co-starred with Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls as Michelle Morris, Effie White’s replacement in the pop group The Dreams. In 2007, Leal starred in Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? and this Christmas, she starred in Perry’s sequel, Why Did I Get Married Too? She also played Vanessa Lodge in the Hellcats television series, which was cancelled in 2011. Leal played a supporting role in the film 1982, which depicts a drug-addicted mother and a father’s struggle to protect his daughter. Leal appears as M’gann M’orzz (Megan in human form) in Supergirl seasons 2, 3, 5, and 6.
Sharon Leal Net Worth
Leal has an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars as of 2023.
Leal Movies and TV Shows
2000–04 Boston Public
2004–05 LAX
2005 Las Vegas
2007 CSI: Miami
2009 Private Practice
2010–11 Hellcats
2011 Suits Lisa Parker
2012 Person of Interest
2014 Perception
Suits Lisa Parker
2015 The Good Wife
Reed Between the Lines
2014–16 Grimm
2016 Recovery Road
Dead of Summer
2016–21 Supergirl
2018–19 Instinct