Felicia Pearson

thumb Felicia Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an American actress, rapper, and author. She is best known for playing Snoop, a fictionalized version of herself, on The Wire. Quotes I was kind of nervous, I just did it. I was like, forget it, if it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen, if it don’t, it don’t. But I’m glad it happened. Nah, I’d never acted a day in my life before that. I mean, I don’t know, it must have been a given that the Lord shined on me, because I didn’t know I had it in me. My life changed for the better, you know, for the positive, it changed for the better. And I thank [the] Lord every night and day that I’m in the position that I am in now. I can help kids, you know. They speak to me, they listen. Youth is a powerful thing. Me and Jamie Hector [the actor who portrays Marlo on The Wire] have a [nonprofit organization] called Moving Out, so we’re trying to get that off the ground to work with the kids and everything, and help get them into the [Baltimore] School for the Arts. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. You know, [a] hard head makes a soft behind. Somebody came after me and I shot them in self defense. That was the worst day of my life. People always talk about paying your debt to society, and after you do, people always want to throw it back in your face. That was the worst day of my life and I regret it each and every day. Imagine you reliving the worst day of your life over and over again, you can’t get past it because people keep bringing it up. It’s just acting. That’s what I tell people. It’s just acting. That’s why I try to push forward about the kids. The show does get their attention, and then they see me in person because I go talk to them at schools and all that. So I tell them, that’s just acting. That aint the way you need to be. Because if you really do look at The Wire, look at how Stringer Bell ends up. Look how Weebay ends up. We don’t wanna end up like that. Yeah, it can. That’s why we doin’ it now. That’s why we got Moving Out. I’m not even gonna say it can–it is. It is gonna make a difference. Because I come from the streets and I know how hard it is to be out there when nobody pays you [any] attention. I already know how it is. So we is gonna make a difference. Snoop’s Survival: An Interview with The Wire’s Felicia Pearson;By The Nation on April 14, 2008 External links Category:Rappers from the United States Category:Actresses from Baltimore Category:Living people Category:1980 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:African Americans