Actress Shari Belafonte

Oh, come on now, do I have to tell you who this is? 

Shari Belafonte is a famous actress who is also the daughter of the late and revered singer Harry Belafonte.  She famously started out as a model in the 1980s, making an iconic series of Calvin Klein commercials talking about the jeans without rally talking about them (Andie MacDowell, an honoree on this blog, and Martha Plimpton also appeared in those TV ads)before making a name for herself as an actress, playing Julie GIllette  in Hotel, the ABC-TV series version of Arthur Hailey's novel of the same title that was produced by Aaron Spelling  (So many Spelling-produced shows had a character named Julie,  and as none of his wives nor daughters bore that name, I have no idea why they did.)

Since the end of the eighties, Ms Belafonte has done numerous TV series and TV movies, playing  Dr. Laura Wingate in the USA sci-fi drama series "Beyond Reality," which ran for two seasons from 1991 to 1993 as well as the romantic 1994 TV-movie drama French Silk  and the 1995 feminist TV movie The Heidi Chronicles.  She also hosted a travel program called "Travels In Mexico And The Caribbean With Shari Belafonte" on NYC Media.  Ms, Belafonte has, though, also done theatrically released movies - as far back as 1982, she starred in If You Could See What I Hear, a bio film about blind musician Tom Sullivan.  She played Heather Johnson, Sullivan's first girlfriend.  (Sullivan is not black, but it didn't matter to him, as a blind man, that Heather was not white.)

More recently, Shari Belafonte has played Julia on the Apple+ morning-news satire "The Morning Show," starring Jennifer Aniston (another honoree on this blog).

Full disclosure requires me to state that I have connected with Shari Belafonte through social media thanks to my connection with top models of the 1980s.  I told her that my dad loved her dad's records. 😊

Fun fact: Like her father, Shari Belafonte sought to be both an actor and singer.  She released two record albums, The Eyes of Night in 1987 and Shari in 1989.