Essence Atkins is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on February 7, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Dee Dee Thorne from Half & Half who was also a character on Suzanne Kingston on the short-lived show Is We Here Yet? and also appeared on the show on NBC called Marlon. She also acted in films as a film actress. she appeared in the 2009 film Dance Flick.
She was She played Tahj Mowry‘s on-screen older sister on the Disney series Smart Guy.’s older sister in Smart Guy, a Disney TV show Smart Guy.
Atkins began her career as a teenager guest starring on NBC sitcom The Cosby Show in 1986. The following years she spent playing guest roles on sitcoms include Family Matters, before landing co-leading role opposite James Earl Jones and Vanessa Bell Calloway in the short-lived first African-American prime-time soap opera Under One Roof in 1995. The following year, she co-starred with Keri Russell in the short-lived NBC teen soap opera Malibu Shores. One of her television roles was in the Saved by the Bell spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The College Years in 1993. She appeared in the pilot, but when Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, a regular from the original, opted to return, Atkins’s character was written out.
From 1997 to 1999, Atkins starred in the WB sitcom Smart Guy as the older sister Tasha Yvette Henderson. From 2002 to 2006 she starred alongside Rachel True in the UPN sitcom Half & Half playing Dee Dee Thorne, her half-sister. She also had supporting roles in films How High (2001), Deliver Us from Eva (2003) opposite Gabrielle Union, and Dance Flick (2009). From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the TBS sitcom series Are We There Yet? opposite Terry Crews. Atkins later starred alongside Marlon Wayans in the parody films A Haunted House (2013) and A Haunted House 2 (2014). In 2016, she was cast opposite Wayans in his NBC sitcom Marlon. it was canceled after two seasons in 2018.
She was engaged with She got married to Jaime Mendez in 2009. The couple welcomed a son in 2011. in 2009. The couple welcomed their first child in 2011.
