Mekia Cox Biography
Mekia Cox is an American actress and dancer best known for her roles in The CW drama 90210’s second and third seasons, the NBC medical drama Chicago Med, and the Michael Jackson concert series This Is It and the related film Michael Jackson’s This Is It. She co-starred in the NBC spy drama Undercovers in 2010.
How old is Mekia Cox? – Age
She is 41 years old as of 2022. She was born on 18 November 1981 in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mekia Cox Family – Education
Cox, a St. Croix native, moved to Orlando, Florida, with her family when she was seven years old, after spending five years of her childhood studying dance in the US Virgin Islands. Cox graduated from Dr. Phillips High School in 1999, where she was a member of the Visual and Performing Arts magnet program for vocal performance. After being accepted into Florida State University’s Musical Theater program, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2003.
Mekia Cox Husband
Cox married basketball analyst Britt Leach on April 28, 2018. She gave birth to their daughter in December 2018. In January 2022, she announced her pregnancy with their second child, which was written into her role as Officer Nyla Harper on The Rookie. Cox expressed appreciation to the show’s writers for doing this. Cox posted a photo of her second daughter on Instagram on May 18, 2022, giving the baby’s birth date as May 13, 2022.
Mekia Cox Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
Mekia Cox The Rookie
She appeared as Nyla Harper, Nolan’s new training officer (Police Detective I), a tough, experienced detective who is leaving behind four years of undercover work so that she can return to patrol work in the American police procedural crime drama television series The Rookie. She is doing this to become more involved in her daughter’s life and to improve her chances in her custody battle with her ex-husband. In season 4, she begins dating James Murray, a local she met during an assignment in his neighborhood in season 3, and eventually becomes pregnant by him. She gives birth early in the fifth season and returns to detective work.
Mekia Cox Chicago Med
She appeared as Dr. Robyn Charles, an epidemiologist and Dr. Daniel Charles’ previously estranged daughter in the American medical drama television series Chicago Med. From seasons two to three, she has a relationship with Dr. Connor Rhodes. Chicago Med is the third series in Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise, set in Chicago. It focuses on the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center’s emergency department and its doctors and nurses as they work to save patients’ lives. It occasionally features characters from Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.
Mekia Cox 90210
She appeared as Sasha in the American teen drama television series 90210. In a pizza parlor, she first meets Dixon Wilson, with whom she had a relationship. He is much older than she is, and he pretends to be a famous and wealthy musician. Sasha goes over to return something to Dixon one day and notices him hugging his mother, Debbie Wilson. Debbie, she believes, is having an affair with Dixon. They meet at a spa, where she learns Dixon is in high school and Debbie is his mother. They break up, and he returns Navid Shirazi’s car, which he borrowed in order to make his story credible. Dixon begs Sasha to take him back, and they soon resume their relationship.
Dixon and Ivy Sullivan are romantically involved. Sasha returns and informs him that she is HIV positive, so he can get tested. Fortunately, Dixon is HIV-negative, and Sasha is never seen again. Debbie notices this right away and approaches Sasha. She called Dixon before Debbie could tell him because she didn’t want Dixon to think she was crazy.
Mekia Cox Once Upon a Time
She appeared as Tiana and Sabine on ABC’s Once Upon a Time. Queen Tiana, also known as Sabine, is a fictional character on ABC’s Once Upon a Time. She makes her debut in the first episode of the seventh season, played by starring cast member Mekia Cox. Tiana is based on the princess from the fairytale “The Frog Prince” and the same-named character from the Disney film “The Princess and the Frog.”
Mekia Cox Movies
♦ 2019 – If Not Now, When?
♦ 2015 – The Squeeze
♦ 2013 – The Exchange
♦ 2013 – After Dark
♦ 2012 – Battlefield America
♦ 2011 – Crazy, Stupid, Love.
♦ 2010 – I Kissed a Vampire
Mekia Cox TV Shows
♦ 2019–present – The Rookie
♦ 2017–2018 – Once Upon a Time
♦ 2016 – Modern Family
♦ 2016 – Impastor
♦ 2016 – Secrets and Lies
♦ 2016–2019 – Chicago Med
♦ 2015 – Grey’s Anatomy
♦ 2014 – Gotham
♦ 2014 – Untitled Jerrod Carmichael Pilot
♦ 2013 – Mob City
♦ 2013–2014 – Almost Human
♦ 2012 – Necessary Roughness
♦ 2012 – Common Law
♦ 2012 – Leverage
♦ 2012–2014 – Key and Peele
♦ 2011 – The Mentalist
♦ 2010 – Undercovers
♦ 2009–2010 – 90210