T'Keyah Keymah
| T'Keyah Crystal Keymàh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Crystal Walker October 13, 1962 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | Florida A&M University |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, writer |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Awards | 2012: TV Land Groundbreaking Show Award (In Living Color) |
| Website | tkeyah |
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (born Crystal Walker; October 13, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, writer, and singer. She is also a professional poet and dancer, and an amateur visual artist. In addition to her status as an original cast member of the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color (1990–94), she is perhaps best known for her roles as Erica Lucas on the CBS sitcom Cosby, and as Tanya Baxter on the Disney Channel sitcom That's So Raven from 2003 to 2005.
Keymáh was born Crystal Walker in 1962, in Chicago. Since the age of three, she has enjoyed entertaining her family – singing, dancing, and reciting original poems and stories. She wrote her first play and her first song in elementary school. A National Merit Scholar, she performed with Ali LeRoi and Lance Crouther in the Mary Wong Comedy Group in high school, before Florida A&M University's School of Business and Industry recruited her. In 1985, she was crowned Miss Black America from Illinois and was 1st runner-up in the national Miss Black America contest. Her brother is Brigadier General William J. Walker, temporary commander of the D.C. National Guard, as of January 20, 2017.
During college and after graduating from Florida A&M, Keymáh taught theater, dance, and mime. She has also done many theater performances, and produced and directed films.
One of the original cast members of Fox Television's Emmy winning variety show, In Living Color, for five seasons Keymáh played a number of characters, including Cryssy, the central character of her self written signature piece, "In Black World". She also sang and danced on the show.
After In Living Color, she played contractor Scotti Decker in On Our Own; played comedy show writer Denise Everett in The Show; and provided the voices for Roz, Shavonne, Aki, Mrs. LaSalle, and many others in Waynehead.
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