Sheila Frazier is an American

United States

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 actress and producer

Film producer

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 most noted for her co-starring role in the film, Super Fly.

Biography

Sheila Elaine Frazier was born in the Bronx, New York to Dorothy Dennis and Eugene Cole Frazier. Growing up in the Lower East Side

Lower East Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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, she attended P.S 97 before moving with her mother at the age of 10 to Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 27,147.Englewood was incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of...

 where she attended Liberty School. As a young girl Sheila was a stutterer which contributed to her shyness. While in the sixth grade, a teacher purported to help overcome her stuttering by making an announcement to the class before Sheila's presentation: “I don’t want any laughter. Sheila’s a stutterer. I don’t want any laughter.” Sheila has said that it was the most painful thing she'd ever gone through, causing her more anxiety at the thought of speaking in public.

While living in Englewood, some of her neighbors included Clyde McPhatter

Clyde McPhatter

Clyde McPhatter was an American R&B singer, perhaps the most widely imitated R&B singer of the 1950s and 1960s, making him a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B. He is best known for his solo hit "A Lover's Question"...

, Van McCoy

Van McCoy

Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle", which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death...

, The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

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 and Dolly

Clarice McLean

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 and Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

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. She went to Dwight Morrow High School, where her classmates included Margaret Travolta

Margaret Travolta

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. After seeing Susan Hayward in the film, I'll Cry Tomorrow

I'll Cry Tomorrow

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, Sheila was inspired to become an actress, and after graduating from high school in 1966 at the age of 17, Frazier moved to New York City, staying with her godmother. She found work as a secretary

Secretary

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.

Modeling, Movies and Television

Riding home one day on the subway

New York City Subway

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 Sheila was approached by a man who asked her if she'd ever considered modeling. Feeling that he was legitimate, she followed up on the contact, doing photo sessions with his boss, Bert Andrews

Bert Andrews

Bert Andrews was an American photographer, who chronicled black theatre in New York City. In a career that spanned over three decades he photographed many of the leading African American actors of the stage and screen including James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Diana Sands, Louis Gossett, Jr., Billy...

. She began to do runway modeling and print work but did not like the focus of attention on her. At some point she met Richard Roundtree

Richard Roundtree

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 who suggested she audition for the Negro Ensemble Company

Negro Ensemble Company

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. Remembering Richard Roundtree's advice to focus on the part she was acting Sheila was amazed to find that she'd overcome her stuttering. Five months later she auditioned for the film Super Fly, winning the role of Georgia, the lead actress. She went on to work in many film and television productions, including Three the Hard Way

Three the Hard Way (film)

Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action blaxploitation film starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly, written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and directed by Gordon Parks, Jr....

. In 1980 she hosted a community affairs show on KNXT-TV in Los Angeles. She worked as a story editor at Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...

's Indigo Productions. Frazier resides in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 with her husband

Husband

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 John Atchison. She has a son, music producer, Derek McKeith.

Film & Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Super Fly	Gloria
1973	Super Fly T.N.T. Super Fly T.N.T. Super Fly T.N.T. is a 1973 film directed, starring, and co-written by Ron O'Neal. O'Neal reprises his role of Youngblood Priest from the smash hit blaxploitation film Super Fly.The film is currently out of print.-Plot:...	Georgia
1974	Three The Hard Way Three the Hard Way (film) Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action blaxploitation film starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly, written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig and directed by Gordon Parks, Jr....
1977	Starsky and Hutch Starsky and Hutch Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...		television mini-series
1978	California Suite California Suite California Suite is a 1976 play by Neil Simon. Similar in structure to his earlier Plaza Suite, the comedy is composed of four playlets set in Suite 203-04, which consists of a living room and an adjoining bedroom with an ensuite bath, in The Beverly Hills Hotel.-Plot:In Visitor from New York,...
1978	King King - Centers of population :* King, Ontario, CanadaIn USA:* King, Indiana* King, North Carolina* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin* King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin* King County, Washington- Moving-image works :Television:...
1979	The Hitter
1981	Lou Grant Lou Grant Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Edward Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS. The first was Mary Tyler Moore , in which the character was the news director at the fictional television station WJM-TV...
1982	Dallas
1982	The Love Boat The Love Boat The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
1983	Two of a Kind Two of a Kind Two of a Kind may refer to:*Two of a Kind , a 1951 film starring Lizabeth Scott*Two of a Kind , a 1983 film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John* Two of a Kind , soundtrack of the 1983 film...
1985	Gimme a Break
1985	Magnum P.I.
1986	Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from October 8, 1981 to May 16, 1988...
1988	227 227 (TV series) 227 is an American situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, until May 6, 1990. The series starred Marla Gibbs as a sharp-tongued, inner-city resident gossip and housewife, Mary Jenkins...
1999	The West Wing
2000	The District The District The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department .-Premise:...
2001	All About You All About You (film) All About You is a 2001 African American romantic comedy film written and directed by Christine Swanson, Produced by Michael Swanson and starring Renee Goldsberry and Terron Brooks....
2004	NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
2006	The Last Stand The Last Stand The Last Stand is the third group album from Hip Hop collective Boot Camp Clik, released on July 18, 2006. The group consists of Black Moon's Buckshot, Smif-N-Wessun's Tek and Steele, Heltah Skeltah's Rock and Sean Price, and O.G.C.'s Starang Wondah, Louieville Sluggah and Top Dog. The album marks...