Name	Kherington Payne
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	26-January-1990
Place of Birth	Whittier, California, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Kherington Payne is an American dancer and actress who came to prominence as a Top 10 Finalist in Season 4 of the hit reality-dance show So You Think You Can Dance and in a role in the 2009 reinvention of the movie Fame. She's been a principal dancer for Katy Perry, and was a lead cast member on E! reality docu-drama "The Dance Scene". Payne was also briefly a member of the third line-up of the girl group The Pussycat Dolls. She was a choreographer on the Youtube show Dance Showdown.

Payne was born in Whittier, California, the daughter of Sheri Ashe and Rick Payne and granddaughter of Charles Payne. She has been taking formal dance lessons since she was 2 years old at Dance Precisions, located in Placentia, Ca. She graduated from El Dorado High School on June 10, 2008 and now lives in Placentia, California while pursuing her dance career. Kherington specializes in contemporary jazz, and is also trained in lyrical, ballet, pointe and gymnastics. Apart from dance, she is also an avid soccer fan who has played for many years. Kherington is the cousin of The Bolts brothers Addam, Heath, and Austin Farmer.

In November, Kherington performed a number of shows in Los Angeles with a girl group called Dance Recital. Payne co-starred with famous choreographer Laurieann Gibson on the E! docu-drama, The Dance Scene in 2011. The series followed Gibson and her dancers as they lived and worked in the LA dance/entertainment industry. The show first premiered April 10 on the E! Network in the United States, and has since been broadcast in many countries around the world. In early 2011, Kherington appeared in the Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman romantic comedy No Strings Attached as a 'frat party dancer'. In February 2011, she appeared as a featured dancer on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "All That Cremains." Later that month she performed with Katy Perry on the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. In September, she made her second appearance on Dancing With The Stars as part of Macy’s Stars Of Dance in a Busby Berkeley-inspired number choreographed by Marguerite Derricks, who had previously choreographed Kherington in Fame. In late 2011, she also appeared in commercials for Shoe Carnival and Ford.