Tichina Arnold Net Worth

Tichina Rolanda Arnold (born June 28, 1969) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for having portrayed the roles of Pamela James on the FOX sitcom Martin and the family matriarch Rochelle on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.
Tichina Arnold was born to a middle-class family in Queens, New York. Her mother was a sanitation department worker and her father was a police officer. She attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Her penchant for performing began in her childhood, holding church congregations enthralled as a four-year-old. When she turned eight, her mother and uncle encouraged her to audition, and she won a part in her first play The Me Nobody Knows at the Billie Holiday Theater in Brooklyn[citation needed]. She continued to perform in the theater and at supper clubs, starring in such production as Hair, Romance and Hard Times[citation needed]. She then landed bit parts in TV movies such as The Brass Ring in 1983 and PBS' House of Dies Drear the year after[citation needed]. Arnold has one sister.
In 1986, Tichina Arnold appeared as Crystal, one of the three chorus girls who perform R&B numbers in Frank Oz's film musical Little Shop of Horrors along with future Martin co-star Tisha Campbell. Arnold was only 17 at the time, and her career continued steadily after that, with a role or two almost every year, including the films How I Got into College and the Paul Mazursky/Woody Allen collaboration Scenes from a Mall (1991). In February 1987 Arnold scored her first big break on television, with a permanent role on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. Her critically lauded role, as young heroine Zena Brown, landed her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1988. She continued in the role until the series ended in January 1989.
Arnold's best-known television role was Pamela James on Martin Lawrence's sitcom Martin (1992-1997). She also played the role of Nicole Barnes on the sitcom One on One. In 2000, she w