Tony-nominated actress Shalita Grant got her start in theatre, appearing in productions in The Merchant Of Venice and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Grant eventually transitioned into television, garnering a starring role in the CBS spinoff procedural NCIS: New Orleans as Special Agent Sonja Percy.
Grant eventually exited NCIS: New Orleans ahead of the show’s fourth season, attributing the show’s toxic work environment as the and lack of care for her hair on set as the main reasons for her departure.
“In theater, it’s us against the problem,” she said. “We all come into the room knowing there are going to be problems, and we all know that we’re going to solve them together,” Grant said in an interview for The Los Angeles Times. “In TV, the relationship to problems is, ‘Whose fault is it? Heads will roll!’ Nobody wants their head to roll. It takes forever for people to solve problems because nobody wants to take responsibility.” After her departure, Shalita Grant founded Four Naturals, which caters to people with Type 4 hair. The actress also made the rounds on the Netflix horror-comedy series Santa Clarita Diet as Agent Tess Rogers, as well as TBS/HBO Max’s Search Party.
Who is Shalita Grant married to?
Grant is married to commercial director Sabrina Skau. The duo officially got married in August 2018 at San Francisco’s City Hall.
As Love Inc. Magazine reports, “after connecting on the dating app, HER, one of the only online dating spaces specifically for queer womxn, Shalita and Sabrina had to whether long distance as Shalita was living in The Big Easy filming “NCIS: New Orleans” while Sabrina was in LA. But their bond proved to be stronger than the distance that was between them, and after a year of flying back and forth to spend time together, Sabrina took the leap and moved to Louisiana. Not long after, she proposed to Shalita on a skiing and snowboarding trip in the mountains of Whistler in British Columbia with a cushion cut canary diamond ring.”
Grant is set to appear in the third season of Netflix’s You as Sherry.
