Sherri Shepherd fulfilled a childhood dream Monday when a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled in her honor, marking the 30th anniversary of her career in comedy, acting and daytime television.<\/p>\n
Tyler Perry, Niecy Nash and producer Ira Bernstein joined Shepherd at Monday\u2019s ceremony in front of the W Hollywood Hotel at 6258 Hollywood Blvd.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve dreamed about having my own talk show since I was a little girl,\u201d Shepherd said just before the 2,827th star on the Walk of Fame was unveiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to always dream that I was going to be somebody, \u2019cause on my report card it always said, `Sherri is amazing and she\u2019s wonderful, but she talks too much.\u2019 So before I got in trouble, I knew it was going to pay off \u2014 me talking too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shepherd grew emotional as she thanked her 20-year-old son, Jeffrey, who was born prematurely and later diagnosed with autism.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy biggest shout-out is to my son, Jeffrey Tarpley \u2014 my son who was born at 25 weeks, a pound and 10 ounces, and everybody told me he wouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cEverything that I do, everything that I am, is for my baby. He\u2019s 20, but he\u2019ll always be my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Shepherd took the podium, Perry reflected on her impact both as a performer and as a friend. He produced \u201cPrecious,\u201d the 2009 Oscar best picture nominee in which Shepherd co-starred. He directed, wrote and produced the psychological crime drama \u201cStraw,\u201d released in June on Netflix in 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many people on the planet that were sent here to bring light, and then there are other people who are here to be light. Sherri is a person who is light. When she walks in the room, you feel it, you know it. She makes everybody feel seen,\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n
Nash and Shepherd appeared together in the 2005 romantic comedy \u201cGuess Who.\u201d Shepherd later had a recurring role on the 2012-16 TV Land comedy \u201cThe Soul Man,\u201d in which Nash was a series regular. Nash, who received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018, praised Shepherd\u2019s resilience and generosity.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will never know what it costs her sometimes to make other people laugh and to make them feel \u2026 and I\u2019m so, so grateful to call you (a) friend,\u201d an emotional Nash told Shepherd.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would\u2019ve never thought that these two girls \u2026 would both have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right across the street from each other,\u201d Nash added.<\/p>\n
Bernstein, co-president of Debmar-Mercury, which distributes Shepherd\u2019s talk show \u201cSherri,\u201d said her genuine personality is what sets her apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a saying in television, `that if you\u2019re on every day, your real self shows through.\u2019 In Sherri\u2019s case, that\u2019s her superpower. What you see on screen is truly who she is \u2014 warm, authentic, full of joy and genuinely in love with what she does every day,\u201d Bernstein said.<\/p>\n
Born April 22, 1967, in Chicago, Shepherd began her television acting career in 1995 as a cast member on The WB comedy \u201cCleghorne!\u201d which was canceled after 12 episodes aired.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy agent told me, `You can quit your job,\u201d\u2019 Shepherd said in a 2018 interview with Ebony. \u201cI had that big break \u2026 and then it was canceled. I lost my apartment, my car was repossessed and I was homeless for a year. I slept on everybody\u2019s couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this business, it\u2019s very uncertain. You can be working one day and not working the next.\u201d<\/p>\n
After guest-starring roles on \u201cClaude\u2019s Crib,\u201d \u201cLiving Single,\u201d \u201cSuddenly Susan\u201d and \u201cFriends,\u201d Shepherd was cast in her second series, \u201cHolding the Baby,\u201d which ran for eight episodes on Fox in 1998.<\/p>\n
Shepherd was a cast member on the NBC comedy \u201cSuddenly Susan\u201d during its final 1999-2000 season, playing a different character than in her 1997 guest-starring appearance.<\/p>\n
She was also a cast member of the 2001 NBC comedy \u201cEmeril\u201d; the 2002 ABC comedy, \u201cWednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central)\u201d; the 2002-06 ABC comedy \u201cLess Than Perfect\u201d; the 2007 Fox comedy-drama \u201cThe Wedding Bells\u201d; the 2009 Lifetime comedy \u201cSherri\u201d; the 2017-18 NBC mocumentary legal sitcom \u201cTrial & Error\u201d; and the 2019-20 Netflix comedy \u201cMr. Iglesias.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shepherd also had recurring roles on the CBS comedies \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond,\u201d \u201cHow I Met Your Mother\u201d and \u201cMan With a Plan\u201d; the NBC comedy \u201c30 Rock\u201d; the Disney Channel comedy \u201cK.C. Undercover\u201d; The WB comedy \u201cThe Jamie Foxx Show\u201d; the 2021 ABC comedy \u201cCall Your Mother\u201d; and the 2024-25 Netflix teen comedy drama, \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was a host of \u201cThe View\u201d from 2007-14, joining her co-hosts in receiving Daytime Emmy nominations from 2008-2011 and 2014, winning in 2009. She has hosted \u201cSherri\u201d since 2022 after being a guest host of \u201cThe Wendy Williams Show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shepherd is set to begin a five-month comedy tour in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherri Shepherd fulfilled a childhood dream Monday when a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2847,1743,6227,48,52,51,47,50,49,25595,25400,25401,1860,2850,7051,687],"class_list":["post-36498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-host","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-receives","tag-shepherd","tag-sherri","tag-show","tag-star","tag-talk","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}