---
name: "Shalita Grant"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shalita-grant"
fi1m_id: "shalita-grant"
imdb_id: "nm3659314"
tmdb_id: 1493225
wikidata_id: "Q21651763"
roles: []
born: "28 August 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:11:16.798226+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Shalita Grant

## Identity

Shalita Grant

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shalita-grant
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shalita-grant
- **IMDb ID:** nm3659314
- **TMDB ID:** 1493225
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21651763
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalita_Grant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21651763, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3659314/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1493225

Actor. Born 28 August 1988 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 28 August 1988, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalita_Grant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21651763, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3659314/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1493225

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*You*](https://film.one/tv/you.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Shalita Grant is an American actress. She was born on 28 August 1988 and raised in Petersburg, Virginia. She attended the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland, where she was a YoungArts Winner in Theatre and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. At 17 she received a scholarship to the Juilliard School, graduating with a B.F.A. in Drama in 2010.

Grant began her career in theatre, originating the role of Cassandra in Christopher Durang’s *Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike*. The production moved to Broadway in 2013, earning her a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play and a Theatre World Award. On television she is known for the role of Sonja Percy on *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014–2018) and as Sherry Conrad on *You* (2021–2025). Other credits include *Mercy Street* (2016), *Santa Clarita Diet* (2019), *Search Party* (2020) and *Abbott Elementary* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, as Sherry Conrad — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Side Quest* (2025), series, as Janae
- *Common Side Effects* (2025), series, as Female DEA Agent (voice), Susan (voice), Kelly (voice), Oncologist (voice)
- *Abbott Elementary* (2021), series, as Miss Janet — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/abbott-elementary.md)
- *First Date* (2021), as Jennifer
- *Special* (2019), series, Actor
- *You* (2018), series, as Sherry Conrad — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *Search Party* (2016), series, as Cassidy — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/search-party-2016.md)
- *Mercy Street* (2016), series, as Aurelia Johnson
- *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014), series, as Sonja Percy
- *Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike* (2012), as Cassandra
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Sergeant Nora Swan — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Bones* (2005), series, as Andie Roberts — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *NCIS* (2003), series, as Sonja Percy — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)
- *Empire Corner*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Shalita Grant](https://film.one/media/person/1300532/gallery-5437f67ee7a7.png) Shalita Grant — Charles Erickson, The Huntington, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Cropped_image_of_Shalita_Grant_in_2012.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Shalita Grant](https://film.one/media/person/1300532/gallery-e2c7c75f07b6.jpg) Shalita Grant — Image via TMDB
- ![Shalita Grant](https://film.one/media/person/1300532/gallery-358d92819a43.jpg) Shalita Grant — Image via TMDB
- ![Shalita Grant](https://film.one/media/person/1300532/gallery-62c7a1459988.jpg) Shalita Grant — Image via TMDB
- ![Shalita Grant](https://film.one/media/person/1300532/gallery-d0360cd6adce.jpg) Shalita Grant — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Theatre World Award 2013: Theatre World Award (won)
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play 2013: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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