Salli: I think I've always wanted to perform.
Salli: I was so excited playing Bill Cosby's daughter. Also, I got to play a spy.
Salli: I was losing a lot of jobs because the other people had more notoriety than I did.
Salli: People think that I am Persian, Indian, East Indian, Spanish, everything. People think that I am everything. Nobody knows what I am. And that was a problem when I was first working because it was like, 'She doesn't really look this or that.' Now people know who I am and it is not a problem. If I get some work, I'll just have to get the work looking like me.
Salli says her ideal role is similar to that in the French film, La Femme Nikita, a movie about a beautiful woman who was programmed to be an assassin.
In 1998 she acted in a on stage play named The Old Settler with Jenifer Lewis and CCH Pounder.
Salli studied opera while she attended High School.
In the Western movie Posse, Salli played Mario Van Peebles love interest.
Salli played in an recurring role as Laura Lamas on CSI: Miami.
Salli played tennis for University of Chicago Laboratory High School.
According to Richardson, she and Matthew McConaughey were only friends who became victims of the Hollywood rumor mill. She was then dating and is now married to actor Dondre Whitfield.
On 8 September 2002 she married fellow actor Dondr? T. Whitfield. They have a daughter named, Parker Richardson Whitfield.
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