Davetta Sherwood - Acting Career

Acting Career

Davetta Sherwood started her career in show business as a child print model for companies such as Sears and Atlantic City. At the age of 15, she wrote, cast, directed and produced Davetta Sherwood's First Annual Variety Art show. The charity event raised the most in a single night in her high school's history and funded new art and stage equipment.

Sherwood later began taking acting lessons and landed a guest role on the TV sitcom My Wife and Kids. In 2003, she was cast in the short lived series Platinum as the feisty Jade Rhames alongside Sticky Fingaz and Jason George. The show was also written by Sophia Coppola and was about two brothers who ran a hip hop record label, it was canceled and only aired six episodes. During 2003, Sherwood guest starred on Boston Public, in which she played Dina Fallow, alongside Michael Rapaport whose character she accuses of a student-teacher affair. She would later make a brief cameo appearance and credited as "Girl".

In 2005, Sherwood featured in two films as Tosha Cooper in Back in the Day alongside Tatyana Ali and as Patty in the horror film Venom also starring Agnes Bruckner and Jonathan Jackson. Venom however, was received harshly by critics some dubbing it as "Crappy horror movie" by Entertainment Weekly. She also guest starred on The Bernie Mac Show as Sherri in the episode Jack and Jacqueline.

In 2006, Sherwood was cast as the lovestruck teen Lily Winters in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, Sherwood talked to Soap Opera Digest saying, "We are the same Lily, but not the same actress, so it's going to be a little different," Sherwood explains. "I'm Davetta. That's the biggest change. It's a whole new girl coming in. The fans are going to some getting used to, and they will" Then co-star Rachel Kimsey praised Sherwood performance saying, "Victoria Rowell is such a powerhouse and a force of nature, and Davetta is one of the first people I've met in my life who can match that energy," Kimsey raves. "It's awesome to watch them together."

In late September 2006, Soap Central reported that Sherwood was fired and was being recast by the previous portrayer. Sherwood was also nominated for a NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series", in 2007.

In 2007, Sherwood debuted on stage in the play The Divorce and later starred in the play Pleasant ville, both of which were written by her friend and production manager Chris Mykel Dabney. In April 2007, it was announced that Sherwood would be in the independent film H.N.I.C., which rapper Prodigy would produce. In early 2008, Davetta starred in the independent film A Talent for Trouble as Jessica.

In 2008, Sherwood launched her own production company, 5 Foot Nuthin Productions. Her company, in conjunction with YAV Productions, produced a series of television shows and films intended to start airing in the fall of 2009. Sherwood is currently in the process of writing, producing, and directing her own stage play entitled Exactly Different. Her other projects are The Yes We Will Project, a documentary that features young people that head to Barack Obama's inauguration; Bounce, a reality television series that is currently in pre-production, and another stage play, Pleasant ville, that she had a role in 2007. All stage productions will be converted to film in the near future.