
S. Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, Obie Award, 4 NAACP Image Awards, and 2 Tony Award nominations. She is best known for her role as NYPD Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (1993–2010) on the long-running NBC police procedural drama series Law & Order, as well as the Law & Order TV movie Exiled. She appeared in 390 episodes of the series, more than any other cast member. She has a starring role as Sharon Goodwin on NBC's Chicago Med. She also had a recurring role as Reba (the mail carrier) on Pee-wee's Playhouse, and Ms. St. Marth on the TV series Here and Now. She has appeared in feature films including She's Gotta Have It, Loose Cannons, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Random Hearts, Radio, Black Snake Moan, Lincoln (2012), and Peeples. She has also appeared in TV movies including A Place for Annie, A Mother's Prayer, Breaking Through, Lackawanna Blues, and The Gabby Douglas Story.

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

A Mother's Prayer

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シカゴ・メッド

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Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Year by the Sea

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

The Emmy Awards

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そりゃないぜ!? フレイジャー

LAW & ORDER: 犯罪心理捜査班

グッド・ワイフ

ポーカー・フェイス

The Gabby Douglas Story

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LAW&ORDER

Radio

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Pee-wee's Playhouse

After the SIlence

Mann & Machine

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ブラック・スネーク・モーン

リンカーン

We Grown Now

シーズ・ガッタ・ハヴ・イット

愛する人

We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918

ファインディング・ユア・ルーツ

Jersey Girl

Girl, Positive

A Place for Annie

The Rising Place

Here and Now

The Challenger

ザ・トゥナイト・ショー・スターリング・ジミー・ファロン

Lackawanna Blues

Exiled

Peeples

Today

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ランダム・ハーツ

Eye for an Eye

ライブ・ウィズ・ケリー

ネイビー・シールズ

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

Rachael Ray

Loose Cannons

You Can Go

Slipstream

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An Unexpected Life

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Moe's World

Desmond's Not Here Anymore

It's Nothing Personal

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Blood Sugar Rising

Barbecue

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand