Sherri Shepherd

American comedian and actress Sherri Shepherd serves as one of the five hosts on the ABC talk show The View.

In March 2009, Lifetime commissioned a pilot loosely based on Shepherd's life experiences.Perez Hilton: SView Co-Host Gets Another Gig (March 4, 2009)

Sherri Shepherd began her career by working the stand up circuit in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Eventually she began to book small roles in movies such as Guess Who? and Beauty Shop. In 2005 Shepherd joined the panel of the Barbara Walters produced talk show The View.

• "I believe that God and Christians were here before everyone else." -Sherri Shepherd

• "I was in a jail for six or eight days, for traffic warrants. I felt like I was going to die." -Sherri Shepherd

• "I like Barack. He's like a great boyfriend. He's a great talker. You wake up the next morning and you go: 'I don't know how I took my clothes off." -Sherri Shepherd

• FoxNews.com: New View Co-Host Sherri Shepherd: Christianity Older Than Ancient Greece (December 5, 2007)
  • On the December 4 episode of The View, co-host Shepherd opined that nothing "predated Christians" and that Ancient Greeks used to feed Christians to lions.

• Fox News: "Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd to be View Co-Hosts"
• MSNBC: "Whoopi, Sherri Shepherd to join The View"
• People: "View Chooses Whoopi and Sherri Shepherd"
• Beliefnet: Sherri Shepherd Interview "From Crass Comedy to Christ Talk"

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• April 22, 1967: Born

• 1997: Living Single

• 1998: Friends

• 1998: Holding the Baby

• 1997-2000: Suddenly Susan

• 1996-2001: The Jamie Foxx Show

• 1998-2003: Everybody Loves Raymond

• 2004: Cellular

• 2004: Brandy & Whiskers

• 2005: Beauty Shop

• 2006: Less Than Perfect

• 2007: 30 Rock

• 2007: Kim Possible

• 2007: The Wedding Bells

• 2007: Who's Your Caddy?