Sherri M. Saum (born October 1, 1974) is an American actress. Saum is
best known for her co-lead role as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform
drama series The Fosters (2013â€"18) as well as a subsequent guest
star role in its spinoff Good Trouble (2019â€"present). She is also
known for her television roles in Beggars and Choosers, Rescue Me and
In Treatment, as well as for her roles in the daytime soap operas
Sunset Beach and One Life to Live.Saum was born in Dayton, Ohio, to a
German mother and an African-American father. She got her start at a
Model Search America convention near her home in Kettering, Ohio. She
was discovered during high school, modeling mostly during summer
breaks until she moved to New York to work full-time with the NY
modeling agency Images Management. Saum attended Ohio State University
in Columbus, and New York University in New York.Saum began her acting
career in the NBC daytime soap opera, Sunset Beach as Vanessa Hart,
during the entire run of the series, from 1997 to 1999. In 1999 she
received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger
Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the show. Later in 1999,
Saum was cast as a series regular in the Showtime comedy-drama series
Beggars and Choosers (1999â€"2000), and guest-starred on Girlfriends,
and Charmed. From August 31, 2001 to September 16, 2003, Saum had her
second daytime television role in the ABC soap, One Life to Live, as
Keri Reynolds.
best known for her co-lead role as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform
drama series The Fosters (2013â€"18) as well as a subsequent guest
star role in its spinoff Good Trouble (2019â€"present). She is also
known for her television roles in Beggars and Choosers, Rescue Me and
In Treatment, as well as for her roles in the daytime soap operas
Sunset Beach and One Life to Live.Saum was born in Dayton, Ohio, to a
German mother and an African-American father. She got her start at a
Model Search America convention near her home in Kettering, Ohio. She
was discovered during high school, modeling mostly during summer
breaks until she moved to New York to work full-time with the NY
modeling agency Images Management. Saum attended Ohio State University
in Columbus, and New York University in New York.Saum began her acting
career in the NBC daytime soap opera, Sunset Beach as Vanessa Hart,
during the entire run of the series, from 1997 to 1999. In 1999 she
received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger
Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the show. Later in 1999,
Saum was cast as a series regular in the Showtime comedy-drama series
Beggars and Choosers (1999â€"2000), and guest-starred on Girlfriends,
and Charmed. From August 31, 2001 to September 16, 2003, Saum had her
second daytime television role in the ABC soap, One Life to Live, as
Keri Reynolds.
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