Sh’Kia is an actress, writer, producer, and singer born to an African-American mother and Jamaican father. Raised in small-town Oakland, Florida, she discovered her love for performance in the church choir and later through music, theater, and writing.
She most recently appeared in Tyler Pe
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Sh’Kia is an actress, writer, producer, and singer born to an African-American mother and Jamaican father. Raised in small-town Oakland, Florida, she discovered her love for performance in the church choir and later through music, theater, and writing.
She most recently appeared in Tyler Perry’s Caught Up (BET+) and is best known for her breakout lead role as Malika “Kold” Wise in WEtv and ALLBLK’s urban musical drama Kold x Windy. Sh’Kia also appeared in the final season of FX’s Atlanta (The Most Atlanta), directed by Hiro Murai, alongside Donald Glover and Zazie Beetz.
Beyond acting, Sh’Kia is a staff writer on CLEO TV’s Tough Love: Atlanta. Her scripts have gained recognition in major competitions, including Screencraft (Quarterfinalist, Forbidden Fruit) and WeScreenplay: Diverse Voices (Finalist, Hush, Little Baby). She co-created the web series Kinfolk: The Series, an official selection of the 2022 Los Angeles Black Film Festival and Tribeca’s Creator’s Market.
In 2024, Sh’Kia made her author debut with Quiet Storms of a Flawda Girl’s Diary: Some Almost Entirely Untrue Short Stories, inspired by her Florida roots and her literary influences ranging from Virginia Woolf to The Vagina Monologues and For Colored Girls.
A trained flutist and former music scholar at Florida Atlantic University, Sh’Kia’s artistic journey began in college, where she served as President of the Black Student Union and co-wrote and directed the stage play The Makings of a Man: Penis Monologues. With a BBA in finance and music business, she blends creativity with strategy—building a career that spans screen, stage, and the page.
