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Persia White
As an actress and recording artist (not to mention a painter, dancer, and environmentalist in her spare time), Persia White is certainly multi-talented. She took her first baby steps into show business with bit parts on various TV shows and movies, and she found her first extended role in 1997, playing the feminist-nerd Denise Williams on the Canadian teen comedy-drama series "Breaker High," which also starred a young Ryan Gosling. And in 2000, she found a more prominent and longer-lasting role, signing on as the promiscuous Lynn Ann Searcy on the Primetime Emmy-nominated comedy "Girlfriends," which ran until 2008.