Sherry Richards

Known for her role as "Jeanette" in Season 4 of The Walking Dead (2010), Sherry Richards grew up in the mid-western town of Youngstown, Ohio. She was born on August 4,1958, the second of six children to Lillie (Taylor) a school janitor, and Edward Clinkscale, Sr., a steel worker and preachers son. Her first clue that she wanted to be part of television was when she was hired in 1979 as a receptionist at WYTV Channel 33 and greeted one of their most famous guests, OJ Simpson. It would be years later after moving to Utah that the spark would be reignited. In 1997, during a lunch break outside her place of work, she was mesmerized by a group of people dressed in period clothing walking in synchronized fashion back and forth. Inquiring, she was told they were making a movie. That was the moment Richards realized she wanted to be part of what was happening in front of the camera. With no formal education in television or film she took acting classes and began working in commercials, industrials, print and performing on stage. In 1999, after being discovered while performing at a local community theater, she earned her first theater credit at the Salt Lake Acting Company in one of Arthur Millers stage plays, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. In 2000, Richards moved with her husband to Atlanta, GA. But it was not until 2013 when she received her first professional television credit, cast as Jeanette in AMC's The Walking Dead.