Felicia Pearson

Felicia Pearson is an American actress, author, and rapper. She is best known for playing a character of the same name, Felicia Snoop Pearson, on The Wire. She wrote a memoir titled Grace After Midnight detailing her troubled childhood and time spent in prison for second degree murder.

Pearson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of two incarcerated drug addicts, and was raised in an East Baltimore foster home. Born a premature crack baby and weighing only three pounds, she was not expected to live. She was so small that she was fed with an eyedropper until she could be fed normally. According to her memoir, Grace After Midnight, she met her biological parents very few times her mother was a crack addict and her father was a stick up man. She thus decided to go by her foster familys surname. She was a tomboy from a young age.

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