Biographie
Sharon Pierre-Louis is a multilingual actress fluent in Haitian Kreyol, American Sign Language, English, and conversational French. A classically trained opera singer, she co-founded Project Elev8, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to improving education standards in Haiti. Pierre-Louis is known for her recurring role as Iris in seasons four and five of Freeform’s hit series Switched at Birth, also available on Netflix. Her credits include ABC’s Speechless, the role of Little Jody in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, and a recurring guest role on ABC Family’s (now Freeform) Lincoln Heights. She has guest-starred on CBS’s CSI: Miami and ABC’s Suburgatory, and after filming several pilots, she became a series regular on ABC Family’s The Lying Game. Sharon portrayed Sophie in the indie film Electric Love and was a series regular on the New Media series Grown, produced by Adaptive Studios, known for HBO’s 2015 reboot of Project Greenlight. She also voices multiple characters in the PlayStation video game Crime Boss: Rockay City and has appeared in commercials for Toyota, McDonald's, and Tomorrow Mattress. Her theater work includes voicing Emily Webb alongside Sandra Mae Frank in Deaf West’s production of Our Town at the Pasadena Playhouse. The following season, she returned to Pasadena Playhouse to play Amina, a French-Senegalese Muslim character, in the four-person play Belleville, sharing the stage with Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, The Help) and Thomas Sadoski (Life in Pieces, The Newsroom). Sharon graduated from the award-winning musical theatre program at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts and earned her BFA in acting, Cum Laude, from Florida State University. She also holds a degree in American Sign Language Interpreting and Transliterating, inspired by her Deaf older sibling. Committed to equal access to education, including the arts, Pierre-Louis is a polyglot currently studying Italian and Spanish while actively engaging with both the Deaf and Haitian communities.
