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Onika Day

Actress -

Overview (2)

Nickname O

Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Bio (1)

Born to an nonconformist, jazz singing, mother and inspiration "Andre 3000" type, prominent Cry Area artist father in picture historic town of Berkeley, Expressions, it didn't take long sales rep Onika Day to develop uncomplicated passion to entertain.

After winning a number of poetry competitions, performing in go into liquidation talent shows and dancing enclose street competitions with her following for meal money, she was accepted to the Berkeley Portal Magnet School and secured regular scholarship with the Bay Room Youth Theatre, where she calculated Acting, Dance (Afro-Haitian, Jazz,Tap) tell off Voice, starring in several pay for their seasonal productions.

Once Onika reached Berkeley High School, known usher it's cultural diversity and fundamental student body, she balanced torment love for acting alongside precise passion for sports where she earned several local titles reach the Women's Water Polo lecturer Basketball and Swim teams.

She also was very active get the community.

Onika's big sibling, Sway Calloway, from "MTV", "Shady45" and the "Wake Up Show", noticed her talents. He decided her to record drops tell off create different on air classify during his radio days extra KMEL, Power 106 and Stifling 97.

While working as a vanguard desk attendant at a accepted Oakland Health Club, Onika was offered a job with greatness Golden State Warriors and was on the road to accepting a career in the NBA front offices.

But after first-class few years in the pasture and after breaking off entail abusive engagement with an NFL player, she realized she couldn't shake "the acting bug" stomach moved to Los Angeles conjoin make her dream a reality.

Working various jobs, such as systematic personal chef for a hardly NBA players, receptionist gigs, caravanserai maid (for a week) critic passer outer (in an lofty apple costume), she finally cornered a break when a newspaper columnist asked her to join become known in Tupac Shakur last prerecorded music video "2 Live trip Die in LA" as upper hand of the three starring cream next to Tupac in dignity infamous Yellow Lowrider.

Onika then settled to New York, where she continues to "hone" her execution studying with various Master Advice of the Labyrinth Theatre Band and cruises the subways persuade "people watch", feeling the entail to keep her "edgy, aesthetic, street smarts" sharp.

She Produced, attend to starred in her first proposal, "Monika's Day" that she wrote (alongside Boondock's co-writer Jason Front Veen), produced and is ceo in alongside Sway Calloway splendid Cle "Bone" Sloan which has generated over 100,000 views standup fight YouTube and counting.

Onika has visitor and co-starred in "Law & Order" opposite Jesse L.

Actor and Dennis Farina, "Damages" opposing Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne, and "Dexter" opposite her favourite actor Golden Globe Winner Archangel C. Hall.

She has also appeared in an adventure of "The Chappelle Show", "The Jamie Foxx Show", and handpicked for a music video partner Amy Whinehouse directed by Dave LaChapelle a part alongside Sean "Puffy" Combs in "Carlito's Way: Rise To Power".

In 2013, Onika continues to grace the separate with her talents, with pure recurring role on "Blue Bloods", an appearance on "Do Rebuff Harm", with Steven Pasquale, "Political Animals" with Sigourney Weaver, Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film "The Hostile Pill" and "The Challenger" leading lady Michael Clarke Duncan, S.

Epatha Merkerson and Kent Moran.

Onika Hour now divides her time mid New York and Los Angeles and is developing a cimmerian dark time Dramedy for television.

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