Jeannetta Arnette is an American actress. She became known for her television role as Miss Meara on the
situation comedy
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''
Head of the Class''.
She has also appeared in numerous films, including 1992's ''
Ladybugs'' and 1999's ''
Boys Don't Cry'',
and guest-starring roles on television.
Arnette grew up in
North Carolina and attended high school at
North Carolina School of the Arts, studied acting in England and attended college at
George Washington University where she began acting in local theatrical productions.
She dropped out of college to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career there.
In 2006, she co-starred in
Tori Spelling's
VH1
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sitcom, ''
So NoTORIous'' and played Sarah Jean, an innocent death-row inmate, on
CBS' ''
Criminal Minds''. In 2014, she played in a recurring role in the
CBS series, ''
Extant
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* Extant hereditary titles
* Extant literature, surviving literature, such as ''Beowulf'', the oldest extant manuscript written in English
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''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from North Carolina
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
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