Biography
Vernee Watson is an American actress. She graduated from Cathedral High School and studied drama at New York University before beginning her career in New York theatre groups in the early 1970s.
She is known for recurring television roles including Vernajean Williams in Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), Viola 'Vy' Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996) and Gloria Tyler in Bob Hearts Abishola (2019–2024). Watson has played Stella Henry in General Hospital since 2017 and won two Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. Film credits include Mrs. Collins in Clemency (2019).
Her many guest appearances often cast her as nurses or judges, including roles in The Big Bang Theory as Althea.
