ESSENCE ATKINS
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Essence Atkins
BIOGRAPHY: Atkins began her career as a teenager guest starring on NBC sitcom The Cosby Show in 1986. The following years she spent playing guest roles on sitcoms include Family Matters, before landing co-leading role opposite James Earl Jones and Vanessa Bell Calloway in the short lived first African American prime time soap opera Under One Roof in 1995. The following year, she co-starred with Keri Russell in the short-lived Fox teen soap opera Malibu Shores. One of her television roles was in the Saved by the Bell spin-off, Saved by the Bell: The College Years in 1993. She appeared in the pilot, but when Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, a regular from the original, opted to return, Atkins’s character was written out. |
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SERIES TV WITH: Essence Atkins
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