Felicia Pearson

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Felicia Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an American actress, singer, and writer.

On The Wire, she played Felicia "Snoop" Pearson and wrote an autobiographical book titled Grace After Midnight (2007), chronicling her struggled childhood and time in jail for second-degree murder.

Early life

Pearson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and the daughter of two incarcerated drug dealers, and was raised in an East Baltimore foster home. She was born premature and weighed three pounds, but she was not expected to live. She was so tiny that she was left with an eyedropper before she could be fed properly. Grace After Midnight's book, she said she saw her biological parents a few times, her mother was a crack addict, and her father was an armed robber. She opted to go by her foster family's surname as a result of all of this.

Pearson was a young boy who worked as a drug dealer as a teenager. She was found guilty of second degree murder after the shooting of a girl named Okia Toomer and was sentenced to two eight-year terms at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland, who was sentenced consecutively. She was released after six and a half years.

Pearson said her life turned around at the age of eighteen when Arnold Loney, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and gave her money in jail, was shot and killed. Because she reminded Charlie Brown's beagle Snoopy in the comic strip Peanuts, she had coined "Snoop." Pearson earned her GED while in jail. She was released in 2000 and gained a local job making car bumpers, but she was fired after two weeks after her employer learned she had a criminal record.

Personal life

Pearson and sixty others were arrested and charged with drug possessions on March 10, 2011. Following a five-month DEA probe, the arrest was made during a predawn raid at her Baltimore home. Judge John Addison Howard denied Pearson's bail after his detention because of her acting skills, saying, "Well, you can change your appearance, I've seen the episodes of The Wire in which you appear." You look very different than you do here today, and I'm not talking about the jumpsuit; I'm talking about your general appearance." Pearson was jailed for a month in prison and was given a $50,000 bail on April 8, 2011. She pleaded guilty to the charges the day before her trial was set to begin in August 2011. She was sentenced to a seven-year jail term, with credit for work completed, and three years of supervised probation. According to FOX news affiliates in Maryland, she pleaded guilty because the trial could have been a year or more, and Pearson wanted to continue living her life.

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Career

In a Baltimore team, Pearson met Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little on The Wire. He invited her to attend the set for a single day and introduced her to the writers and the producers. She was given a role in the series following subsequent auditions. Stephen King referred to her appearance in The Wire as "perhaps the most frightening female villain to ever appear in a television series."

her appearance on the show began her acting career, culminating in appearances in "The Boss" and "Here I Am" by R&B singer Lil's "Dem Boyz"; rapper Rick Ross' "The Boss" and "She Will Be"; and "So Many Pros" by Snoop Dogg. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Chi-Raq, and the CBS police procedural drama "Good Cop Bad Cop" has appeared in Spike Lee's Dancing Bells, "Good Cop Bad Cop."

Pearson appeared on the cast of VH1's reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York's seventh and eighth seasons.

Pearson appears in Tony Yayo and Mazaradi Fox's "It's a Stick Up" with its music video featuring clips from The Wire.

Pearson has served as a prison visitor, worked on anti-violence and literacy initiatives for youth, and The Stay Strong Foundation has funded The Stay Strong Foundation.

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