Persia White

Persia Jessica White (born October 25, 1972) is a Bahamas-conceived American entertainer, vocalist, and performer. White may be most famous for her work as Lynn Searcy on the UPN sitcom ‘Girlfriends’, which initially circulated from 2000 until 2008. White is additionally a member of the band XEO3 and an independent vocalist who released her debut album Mecca in 2009.

White was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and was one of four kids to an Irish-American mother and a Bahamian father. Her initial years were spent in the Bahamas. White's dad was incapacitated in a car accident when she was three years old, and he later moved to Miami to look for better clinical consideration. White's mom moved with her kids to South Florida two years later, yet didn't rejoin with White's dad. White later joined the Miami Coconut Grove Children's Theater. As a kid, she concentrated on dance, acting, singing, and painting. White was keen on the innovative field as a little youngster too. She was a prepared ballet artist and got into it when they returned to Miami. She explored and shuffled various types of jobs before getting into melodic theater workmanship. She is extremely energetic concerning painting. After secondary school, White endorsed the Ford Agency and acquired her Screen Actors Guild card. She then moved to Los Angeles to seek after a profession in acting.

White has shown up in different autonomous movies, including ‘Red Letters’ (opposite Peter Coyote) and the faction horror ‘Blood Dolls’. She featured in the made-for-TV movies ‘Operation Sandman’, opposite Ron Perlman, and ‘Suddenly’, opposite Kirstie Alley. Her TV work incorporates appearances on ‘Angel’, ‘NYPD Blue’, ‘The Steve Harvey Show’, ‘Brooklyn South’, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, standard jobs on ‘Breaker High’ with co-star Ryan Gosling, ‘Sister’ as Anya and ‘Girlfriends’ as Lynn. In 2008, White worked in ‘The Fall of Night’ playing the role of Dawn. She can likewise be seen in Chrisette Michele's video for "Be OK".

As well as acting, White additionally co-created the honor-winning documentary ‘Earthlings’, described by  Joaquin Phoenix Dubbed as one of the incomparable actors of our ti >> Read More... . In July 2011, White won the honor for Best Performance by an Actor in the American Black Film Festival for her work in Dysfunctional Friends. She additionally showed up as Bonnie's mom on ‘The Vampire Diaries’ in a semi-repeating role.

In 2019, she rejoined with her Girlfriends co-stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Jill Marie Jones, and Golden Brooks in a scene of the ABC comedy series ‘Black-ish’. White is a vegan, a human and animal rights advocate, and a naturalist. She was respected by PETA as 2005 Humanitarian of the Year. She is a board member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. White has been vocal with regards to basic entitlements for quite a while presently and is a veggie lover. The preservationist was granted the Humanitarian of The Year Award in 2005 by PETA.

White has a daughter, Mecca White, born c. 1995. On February 29, 2008, White became connected with singer Saul Williams, her beau of five years, and wedded in 2008. They met in 2003 when he showed up on the TV show Girlfriends. On January 17, 2009, White declared through her Myspace blog that she and Williams were as of now separated.

Following three years of dating, White wedded fellow Vampire Diaries actor Joseph Morgan in Ocho Rios, Jamaica on July 5, 2014. Persia never needed to turn into an entertainer from the beginning. Her point was to become a singer, something that took her from Miami to Los Angeles. However, she needed to turn down numerous music arrangements and agreements in light of the potential limitations in them. In any case, her passion for music could not stop by any means.

Mecca is Persia White's debut collection. It was released carefully on October 31, 2009, and on CD on December 8, 2009. The title comes from the name of White's girl. The last three tunes on the collection were included in a few scenes of Girlfriends.

She alongside Joaquin Phoenix produced Earthlings, a narrative on environment mindfulness. The narrative got a great deal of awards, and she considers it as her number one work. In a meeting, she additionally proceeds to discuss how she meets various pioneers on such issues.