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• Moved with her family from Senegal to Houston when she was six.
• Learned to speak English from watching Three's Company reruns.
• Took an interest in acting after finding a family friend's abandoned script.
• Works with American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness to maintain library for blind children in Kenya.
• Serves on the board of Hippo Life, a non-profit organization that encourages art in inner city schools.