She played Niecy on "Moesha". See Shar Jackson now at 46 years old.

Discover the life of the actor, the mother and the grandmother today.


From 1996 to 2001,Shar Jackson played onMoesha Like Niecy Jackson, Moesha (Brandy) best friend. But it was a big change compared to the original plan of the character. "She was just supposed to be there for the first episode and sheThe name was not even though. His name was Gail, "said Jackson in an interview in 2020 with the Fort Profit of Netflix." I am happy that they have changed this. I didn't feel like a gail. ""

Jackson said that Niecy becoming a main character "has just happened", adding "every week, there was a new script on my front door". But when she could have been surprised to stay in the series, she was very intentional with her character. "I wanted her to be real. I wanted her to be this chick that nobody ever sees," said Jackson. She stressed that while Moesha was the "good girl" and Kim (Comtesse Vaughn) was the malicious, she wanted Niecy to be integrated into any box but that is the one who "holds them together".

These days, Jackson has good memories of the series, and she even brings her character back to a new series. Read the rest to find out more about his career and his life today.

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She is still an actor.

Shar Jackson at the 1999 American Music Awards
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Jackson was already an actor beforeMoesha, having appeared in episodes of other television programs, includingMy so-called life andHangin 'with Mr. Cooper. DuringMoesha, she played the character of Niecy on several other series. The character appearedDistraught, theMoesha spin offParkers, andGirlfriends. The actor also played in the filmGood hamburgerDuring the performance race.

These days, Jackson is still acting. She was recently on an episode of the seriesShameless And in moviesTake a stan,,Restart of the camp, andA polished soul.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

She plays in a spin-off show.

Shar Jackson and Brandy on
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Niecy the character will appear in another show. Jackson and Vaughn rekindle theirMoesha Characters from the next seriesKim and Niecy. According to an Instagram page for the show, it is set toAir in 15 episodes on Tubi, but an release date has not been announced.

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She is a mother and a grandmother.

Shar Jackson with children Donnie, Kori, and Kaleb at Queen Mary's 10th Annual Dark Harbor Media and VIP Night in 2019
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Jackson has four children -two with his lover of high school ex and two with exKevin Federline. She also has a granddaughter by her daughterCassalei Monique Jackson. In her interview with Strong Black Ead, she shared her family likes to watch her work much more than her. "I don't even look at my things. They look at my things. My mother and children watch everything," she said.

She said her granddaughter particularly likesGood hamburger. "So I have a granddaughter, who is five years old today. It's the strangest thing to say that," said Jackson. "She is constantly watching this film. She took her tablet to the zoo today so that she could watch him while she is at the zoo. It is exaggerated, a little girl."

She would be interested in aMoesha the comeback.

Shar Jackson at the
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In an interview in 2021 with Hollywood Life, Jackson shared that she would consider beingA revival of Moesha, if it was done in the right way.

"I would certainly have broken down," she said. "It would really have to be strategic on the way they would bring it together. I think that is what it would be summed up ... how they put it together, since we have lost so many incredible people Our program -Yvette Wilson,,Lamont Bentley,,Bernie Mac, I mean, the list continues again and again, unfortunately. So, it would be just a question to bring together something that made sense that we could still represent and show love for people who are no longer there, given their incredible talent to this product. ""

It is proud of the series and its impact.

Not onlyMoesha Put the black teenage girls under the spotlight, which was rare for a television program at the time, but that also addressed real problems, in particular racial relations, sex, death, etc.

"I'm so proud of this show," Jackson told Strong Black Lead. "Everything we did was so revolutionary, and I didn't realize it until I become an adult ... To hear the youngest talking about it, I am like, "Well, yes, we talked about it, huh?" We approached this. … We really tackled things that were going on in our neighborhoods and no one else did that. ""

She added: "It is good to know that I helped girls who look like me to realize that they could do this. And that they are not trapped in the little world or the small environment that society tries to Tell them that they are stuck. "


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