<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> shariheadley.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Shari Headley (born July 15, 1964) is an American actress and former model . Headley is best known for her role as Lisa McDowell in the 1988 box - office hit romantic comedy film, Coming to America . Headley also has appeared in films The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Johnson Family Vacation (2004). On television, Headley starred as Det . Mimi Reed in the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children on a regular basis from 1991 to 1994 . As lead actress, she starred in the Fox short - lived drama series, 413 Hope St. (1997 - 1998), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nomination . In 2014, Headley began starring as villainous Jennifer Sallison in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots . </P> <P> Born in Queens, New York, Headley was the youngest of four children . Headley is part - Trinidadian descent . Headley began her career as a model, appearing in magazines such as Glamour and Mademoiselle . </P>

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