Aasha Davis

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| name = Aasha Davis

| image = 2009 Voice Awards Aasha Davis (19731124293).jpg

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| caption = 2009 Voice Awards: Aasha Davis

| birth_name = Aasha Mikela Telford Davis

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|08|17}}

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| spouse = Jesse Pforzheimer (m. 2002)

| children = 1

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2002–present

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Aasha Davis (born August 17, 1973){{cite web|title=Aasha Mikela Telford Davis Vermont, Vital Records|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KN9X-9FX|website=FamlySearch|accessdate=1 March 2015}} is an American actress best known for her roles as Waverly Grady on Friday Night Lights and Chelsea Lewis on South of Nowhere.

Career

Davis is best known for playing the role of Waverly Grady on Friday Night Lights.{{cite web|title= Aasha Davis Credits|url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/aasha-davis/credits/3030053134/ |website=tvguide.com |accessdate= 20 January 2025}} Davis was featured in Gnarls Barkley's music video in 2008 called "Who's Gonna Save My Soul". She has also appeared in Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, Castle, and The Shield.

In 2011, she played opposite Adepero Oduye in the film Pariah.

In 2012, she guest-starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson-scripted romantic comedy web series Husbands.{{cite magazine|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/28/husbands-season-2-first-look/2/|title='Husbands': EP and star on season 2 of their gay-marriage web series -- Exclusive Photos |magazine=Entertainment Weekly|last=Vary|first=Adam B|date=28 June 2012|accessdate=28 June 2012}}

In 2013, Aasha is produced, starred in, and directed an episode of the web series featured on YouTube called The Unwritten Rules, which is based on series creator Kim Williams's book 40 Hours and an Unwritten Rule: The Diary of an African-American Woman.

In 2019, Aasha starred as Bernadette in the rural Louisiana murder mystery The Long Shadow.

Personal life

In 2002, Davis married Jesse Pforzheimer and they have one son, Ever, born in January, 2009.

Davis's older sister, Lesley Herring, disappeared in Los Angeles on February 8, 2009, after a fight with her husband, Lyle Stanford Herring, Sr.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sister-of-greys-anatomy-actress-missing/ Sister of Grey's Anatomy Actress Missing] CBS News, March 26, 2009. Davis reported her sister as missing when she failed to show up to work, her husband having neglected to do so. Lyle Herring was charged with his wife's murder and in April 2010 pleaded not guilty.[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lyle-herring-pleads-not-guilty-to-wifes-murder-actress-aasha-davis-reported-sister-missing/ Lyle Herring Pleads Not Guilty to Wife's Murder; Actress Aasha Davis Reported Sister Missing] CBS News, April 30, 2010. On April 8, 2013, he was convicted of the second-degree murder of his wife. To date, her body has not been found.{{cite web|title=Ex-Cal State recruiter convicted in wife's murder|url=https://abc7.com/archive/9059006/|publisher=KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, April 9, 2013|access-date=June 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515064746/http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Flos_angeles&id=9059006|archive-date=May 15, 2013|url-status=live}} A 2011 episode of Nancy Grace and a June 7, 2013, episode of Dateline NBC[http://insidedateline.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18832839-do-you-have-information-that-might-help-detectives-find-lesley?lite Dateline NBC] covered Davis's sister's case.[http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/03/lesley_herring_nancy_grace.php Lesley Herring, Hollywood Woman Missing for 2 Years, Gets Nancy Grace Treatment on CNN Tonight] LA Weekly, March 31, 2011.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2002 \|Bittersweet Lies \|Ally \|
2011 \|Pariah \|Bina \|
2014 \|{{sortname\|The\|Last Beat\|nolink=1}} \|Nan \|Pre-production
2015 \|Kindred Kill \|Pansy Jones \|Pre-production

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2002

|Bittersweet Lies

|Ally

2011

|Pariah

|Bina

2014

|{{sortname|The|Last Beat|nolink=1}}

|Nan

|Pre-production

2015

|Kindred Kill

|Pansy Jones

|Pre-production

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2002 \|Scratch & Burn \|Sheera \|Episode: "X-Box"
2003–2004 \|Gilmore Girls \|Susan \|2 episodes
2005 \|{{sortname\|The\|Shield}} \|Lucy \|Episode: "Grave"
2005 \|Over There \|Michelle \|Episode: "Roadblock Duty"
2005 \|ER \|Maureen \|Episode: "I Do"
2005–2008 \|South of Nowhere \|Chelsea Lewis \|(35 episodes)
2006 \|House \|Leona \|Episode: "Who's Your Daddy?"
2006–2007 \|Friday Night Lights \|Waverly Grady \|Recurring role (8 episodes)
2007 \|Grey's Anatomy \|Rina \|Episodes: "Testing 1-2-3", "Didn't We Almost Have It All?"
2009 \|Raising the Bar \|Shauna Larkin \|Episode: "Maybe, Baby"
2011 \|Castle \|Alyssa Lofters \|Episode: "Eye of the Beholder"
2012–2014 \|{{sortname\|The\|Unwritten Rules\|nolink=1}} \|Racey Jones \|Regular role (23 episodes)
2013 \|Cowgirl Up \|Robbie \|Regular role (6 episodes)
2013 \|Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files \|Violet Craig \|TV film
2013 \|Ctrl.Alt.Del \|Marcy \|Episodes: "Sista Sista", "Do You See What I See?"
2014 \|Criminal Minds \|Daria Samsen \|Episode: "The Edge of Winter"
2014–2019 \|Drunk History \| Various \|Regular role (22 episodes)
2017 \|Bones \|Kate Dalton \|Episode: "The Brain in the Bot"
2021 \|I Think You Should Leave \|Lisa \|Episode: “Everyone just needs to be more in the moment.”

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2002

|Scratch & Burn

|Sheera

|Episode: "X-Box"

2003–2004

|Gilmore Girls

|Susan