Nia Peeples

Virenia Gwendolyn Nia Peeples is an American RampB and dance music singer and actress. She is also famously known as Pam Fields, the mother of Emily Fields on hit TV drama, Pretty Little Liars , as Karen Taylor Winters on The Young and the Restless, and as Sydney Cooke on Walker, Texas Ranger.

Peeples was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Elizabeth Joan , a flamenco dancer, and Robert Eugene Peeples. She was raised in West Covina. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from the Philippines, and were of Filipino, Spanish, French, and German descent. Her father, who was originally from Mississippi, was of ScotchIrish, English, Native American, and Italian ancestry.

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