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American actress and singer (born )

Jasmine Chanel Guy^[2] (born March 10, )^[3][4] is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director.

She portrayed Dina in the film School Daze and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBCThe Cosby Showspin-offA Different World, which originally ran from to Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from through for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show.

She played Roxy Harvey on Dead Like Me and as Sheila "Grams" Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She also played the role of Gemma on Grey's Anatomy.

Early life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jaye (née Resendes) and William Vincent Guy,^[5] she was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended Northside Performing Arts High School.

Her mother, a Portuguese American, was a former high-school teacher, and her father, who was African-American, was past