Listen Up, Kids: Sheryl Lee Ralph Has a Life Lesson You Need to Hear
glamour.com. Her typical long hair, hoop earrings, and bold prints are a far cry from Howard's cardigans. But when the Emmy-nominated actor sits down to Zoom from her dressing room on set, she is dressed in character, with scissors in hand and a large hat.
For a moment, she looks so much like the kindergarten teacher that I wonder if I've somehow interrupted a scene.“No, my husband and I went to Napa this weekend and I saw this hat and said, ‘Oh my God, that’s me!' and just had to have it," she says, her eyes lighting up. “But it's got a tiny little band on it, and I'm like, ‘Oh no, I’m going to put this satin ribbon on because it's so pretty.' So that's what I'm doing with the scissors.”Putting her own spin on things has been Ralph's style for decades.
And now, with Abbott as the critical darling of the Emmys and the torchbearer for network sitcoms typically put out to pasture in today's streaming age, more people than ever are paying attention.
As for Ralph, she says she's still very much the same teenager who—get this— as a College Women of the Year, despite this new generation of fans.
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