Shamika Cotton

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Shamika Cotton is an American actor from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Shamika Cotton graduated from Cincinnati's competitive School for the Creative and Performing Arts• ^[1]. She is perhaps best-known to television viewers as Michael Lee's drug-addicted mother Raylene Lee in the acclaimed HBO series The Wire. In November, 2007, Shamika launched a weekly videocast on YouTube entitled the “Shamika Chronicles” [1], a series that follows her life and offers a realistic look at the daily life and work of an aspiring and talented actress.