About

After high school Dee entered the United States Marine Corps on a dare and left six years later as a Sergeant. (Oorah!) She lived in Japan after leaving the service, working at an all-Japanese radio station, FM Aomori, as a disc jockey.

Dee has performed in more than 80 stage productions beginning with “Shear Madness” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has won numerous awards and was nominated twice for the NAACP Image Award for “Homegirl” at the Court Theater, and “The Last Street Play” at the Colsac Theater. 

Dee made her way to Los Angeles and has spent the last 25-plus years acting in television and film. Credits include NCIS L.A., Reasonable Doubt, Shameless, Cold Case, Dexter, E.R., Halfway Home, Pretty the Series, Brothers and Sisters, Crossing Jordan, My Baby’s Daddy, Boston Public, The Guardian, Anacostia, The Shield, Six Feet Under, Suddenly Susan, Kenan & Kel, Stranger Inside, The District, Blue Hill Avenue, The Division, Third Rock From the Sun, High Incident, Profiler, All That, The Hughley’s, Ghost Whisperer, Caroline In The City, Freezerburn, Seinfeld, Caroline In The City, The X-Files, The Landlady, Rude Awakening, and more. 

Dee just completed Seasons 9 and 10 of Tyler Perry's “Sistas,” was a supporting lead in the horror movie, "Don't Move," and appears in the shorts "Patty's Last Resort" with Lori Beth Denberg, "Country We Call Life," and “For Piece Of Mind,” all due out this Fall.

On the home front not only did Dee survive childbirth twice, she also survived living in a household with numerous exotic animals including three ball python snakes, a Pacman frog, a bearded dragon, a water dragon, two blue headed tree agamas, two giant African millipedes, a bare eyed cockatoo, several green iguanas, a white rat, a Chilean rose hair tarantula, two dogs, and an ex-husband.