A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring talk show host, actress and comedian Sherri Shepherd will be unveiled Monday in connection with the 30th anniversary of the start of her career.
Tyler Perry, Niecy Nash and Ira Bernstein are set to join Shepherd in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of the W Hollywood Hotel.
Perry produced “Precious,” the 2009 Oscar best picture nominee Shepherd co-starred in. He directed, wrote and produced the psychological crime drama “Straw,” released in June on Netflix, which Shepherd co-starred as a bank teller who meets a struggling single mother (Taraji P. Henson) who is having the worst day of her life.
Nash and Shepherd appeared together in the 2005 romantic comedy, “Guess Who.” Shepherd had a recurring role on the 2012-16 TV Land comedy “The Soul Man,” and Nash was a cast member.
Bernstein is a co-president of Debmar-Mercury which distributes Shepherd’s syndicated talk show “Sherri.”
The star is the 2,827th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
All Walk of Fame ceremonies are streamed on walkoffame.com, and can later be seen on YouTube.com/@HwdWalkofFame.
Born April 22, 1967, in Chicago, Shepherd began her television acting career in 1995 as a cast member on The WB comedy “Cleghorne!” which was canceled after 12 episodes aired.
Shepherd was working as a legal secretary when she was cast as the dim- witted sister of Ellen Carson (Ellen Cleghorne) who aspires to become a model.
“My agent told me, ‘You can quit your job,” Shepherd said in a 2018 interview with Ebony. “I had that big break … and then it was canceled. I lost my apartment, my car was repossessed and I was homeless for a year. I slept on everybody’s couch.”
“In this business, it’s very uncertain. You can be working one day and not working the next.”
After guest-starring roles on “Claude’s Crib,” “Living Single,” “Suddenly Susan” and “Friends,” Shepherd was cast in her second series, “Holding the Baby,” which ran for eight episodes on Fox in 1998.
Shepherd was a cast member on the NBC comedy “Suddenly Susan” during its final 1999-2000 season, playing a different character than in her 1997 guest-starring appearance.
Shepherd was also a cast member of the 2001 NBC comedy “Emeril”’; the 2002 ABC comedy, “Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central)”; the 2002-06 ABC comedy “Less Than Perfect”; the 2007 Fox comedy-drama “The Wedding Bells”; the 2009 Lifetime comedy “Sherri”; the 2017-18 NBC mocumentary legal sitcom “Trial & Error”; and the 2019-20 Netflix comedy “Mr. Iglesias.”
Shepherd also had recurring roles on the CBS comedies “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “Man With a Plan”; the NBC comedy “30 Rock”; the Disney Channel comedy “K.C. Undercover”; The WB comedy “The Jamie Foxx Show”; the 2021 ABC comedy “Call Your Mother”; and the 2024-25 Netflix teen comedy drama, “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”
Shepherd was a host of “The View” from 2007-14, joining her co-hosts in receiving Daytime Emmy nominations from 2008-2011 and 2014, winning in 2009. She has hosted “Sherri” since 2022 after being a guest host of “The Wendy Williams Show.”
Shepherd is set to begin a five-month comedy tour in January.