Felicia Pearson
Felicia Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an American actress, author, and rapper. She is best known for playing a character of the same name, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, on The Wire. She wrote a memoir titled Grace After Midnight detailing her troubled childhood and time spent in prison for second degree murder.
Early life
Pearson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of two incarcerated drug addicts, and was raised in an East Baltimore foster home. Born a premature crack baby and weighing only three pounds, she was not expected to live. She was so small that she was fed with an eyedropper until she could be fed normally. According to her memoir, Grace After Midnight, she met her biological parents very few times; her mother was a crack addict and her father was a stick up man. She thus decided to go by her foster family's surname. She was a tomboy from a young age.
Pearson worked as a drug dealer. At the age of 14, she was convicted of second degree murder after the shooting of a girl named Okia Toomer, and was sentenced to two eight-year terms, to be served consecutively, at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland. She was released after six and a half years.
Pearson, Felicia Filmography
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2014, role: actress , character name: Lou
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2014, role: actress , character name: Lucky Mays
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2013, role: actress , character name: Bartender
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2012, role: actress , character name: Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson
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2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
