Name	Davetta Sherwood
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	27-January-1984
Place of Birth	Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Davetta Sherwood is an American actress and musician. Sherwood first worked as a child model before venturing into an acting career including appearing in music videos and guest appearances. Her first breakthrough acting role was on the Emmy award-winning soap opera The Young and the Restless, that earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series". In 2008, Sherwood launched her production company, 5 Foot Nuthin Productions. She claims the company was inspired by her stage play, titled Exactly Different, which will be adapted into a film in the near future.

Davetta Sherwood started her career in show business as a child print model for companies such as Sears and Atlantic City. At the age of 15, she wrote, cast, directed and produced Davetta Sherwood's First Annual Variety Art show. The charity event raised the most in a single night in her high school's history and funded new art and stage equipment. Sherwood later began taking acting lessons and landed a guest role on the TV sitcom My Wife and Kids. In 2003, she was cast in the short lived series Platinum as the feisty Jade Rhames alongside Sticky Fingaz and Jason George. The show was also written by Sophia Coppola and was about two brothers who ran a hip hop record label, it was canceled and only aired six episodes. During 2003, Sherwood guest starred on Boston Public, in which she played Dina Fallow, alongside Michael Rapaport whose character she accuses of a student-teacher affair. She would later make a brief cameo appearance and credited as "Girl".