Top 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsMost Popular Video GamesMost Popular Music VideosMost Popular Podcasts
    Release CalendarBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersSundance Film FestivalIndependent Spirit AwardsBlack History MonthSXSWSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Biography
  • Awards
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Shalita Grant

  • Actress
  • Soundtrack
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank
Shalita Grant
An over-achieving teenager in New York City, Luna Johnson, accidentally becomes a medium and starts to crack from seeing ghosts everywhere.
Play trailer1:36
Haunt the Johnsons (2021– )
1 Video
32 Photos
Shalita Grant was raised in Petersburg, Virginia and attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland where she was a YoungArts Winner in Theater and Presidential Scholar in the Arts. At 17, she received a scholarship to attend the Julliard School for her B.F.A. in Drama, graduating in 2010.

In the first season of NCIS: New Orleans (2014), her role as former ATF turned NCIS Agent Sonja Percy, was recurring and was soon followed with a promotion to series regular at the start of the second season. Grant also starred as contraband slave, Aurelia Johnson, in the PBS original Civil War mini-series, Mercy Street (2016). Her television guest star credits include The Good Wife (2009), Battle Creek (2015), Bones (2005), and Melissa & Joey (2010). Her film features include shorts Empire Corner (2010), Invisible (2010), and Oscar-nominated documentary, Rehearsing a Dream (2006).

Grant's stage credits include "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" at the Lincoln Center, "The Philanderer" (The Pearl Theatre Company), "Measure for Measure", "The Winter's Tale" and "Merchant of Venice" (The Public Theater). In spring of 2013, she continued her role of Cassandra in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" on Broadway, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Play and won the 2013 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut.

Following her Tony Award nomination, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue television where she fondly recalls her struggles in auditioning 54 times within one year for various roles and, at one point, while running out of savings, briefly turned to bartending before landing a series of guest star roles and finally series regular. Grant splits her time between New Orleans, Louisiana, where NCIS: New Orleans is filmed, and Los Angeles, California.
BornAugust 28, 1988
  • More at IMDbPro
    • Contact info
    • Agent info
    • Resume
BornAugust 28, 1988
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank
  • View contact info at IMDbPro
  • Awards

Photos32

Lucas Black and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Shalita Grant and McKinley Belcher III in Mercy Street (2016)
Shalita Grant and McKinley Belcher III in Mercy Street (2016)
Lucas Black, Zoe McLellan, and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Lucas Black, Vanessa Ferlito, Rob Kerkovich, and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Shalita Grant and Jon-Michael Ecker in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Saffron Burrows, Shalita Grant, and Victoria Pedretti in W.O.M.B. (2021)
Shannon Chan-Kent, Shalita Grant, and Victoria Pedretti in Hands Across Madre Linda (2021)
Vanessa Ferlito and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Lucas Black, Vanessa Ferlito, Rob Kerkovich, and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Lucas Black, Derek Webster, Vanessa Ferlito, and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
Scott Bakula and Shalita Grant in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)

Known for

Scott Bakula in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
NCIS: New Orleans
6.8
TV Series
  • Sonja Percy
Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
NCIS
7.8
TV Series
  • Sonja Percy
Search Party (2016)
Search Party
7.7
TV Series
  • Cassidy
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, and McKinley Belcher III in Mercy Street (2016)
Mercy Street
7.5
TV Series
  • Aurelia Johnson

Credits

Edit
IMDbPro

Actress

  • Penn Badgley and Tati Gabrielle in You (2018)
    You
  • Haunt the Johnsons (2021)
    Haunt the Johnsons
  • First Date (2021)
    First Date
  • Ryan O'Connell in Special (2019)
    Special
  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2021)
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
  • Search Party (2016)
    Search Party
  • Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant in Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
    Santa Clarita Diet
  • Scott Bakula in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
    NCIS: New Orleans
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Radnor, and McKinley Belcher III in Mercy Street (2016)
    Mercy Street
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)
    Bones
  • Battle Creek (2015)
    Battle Creek
  • Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence in Melissa & Joey (2010)
    Melissa & Joey
  • Julianna Margulies in The Good Wife (2009)
    The Good Wife
  • Invisible

Soundtrack

  • Scott Bakula in NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
    NCIS: New Orleans

Videos1

Trailer
Trailer 1:36
Trailer

Personal details

Edit
    • August 28, 1988
    • Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • August 8, 2018 - present (divorced)
  • (March 5, 2013 to August 25, 2013) Stage play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike-playing Cassandra, at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York, USA. Also starring David Hyde Pierce (Vanya), Sigourney Weaver (Masha), Kristine Nielsen (Sonia), Billy Magnussen (Spike), Genevieve Angelson (Nina); Written by Christopher Durang, Directed by Nicholas Martin.

Did you know

Edit
  • Trivia
    She does not own a television.

Related news

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
  • Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • IMDb Developer
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2023 by IMDb.com, Inc.