Senait Ashenafi
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Senait Ashenafi is an Ethiopia
n-born actress in the United States
who played Keesha Ward in General Hospital
from 1994 to 1998. She has also worked as a dancer, singer, and model
. She is the daughter of the Ethiopian composer and ethnomusicologist Ashenafi Kebede
and the sister of Nina Ashenafi Richardson, a judge in Florida
.
Ashenafi attended Florida State University
in Tallahassee, where her father was a professor, and graduated with a degree in Drama in 1988. She went on to be a guest star on shows such as A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
, and Mad About You
.
Upon leaving the role of Keesha Ward on General Hospital in 1998, Ashenafi went on to star in the movie, Honeybee, in 2001.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
n-born actress in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
who played Keesha Ward in General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
from 1994 to 1998. She has also worked as a dancer, singer, and model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
. She is the daughter of the Ethiopian composer and ethnomusicologist Ashenafi Kebede
Ashenafi Kebede
Ashenafi Kebede was an Ethiopian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, historical musicologist, music educator, novelist, and poet.Kebede was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and educated in musicology in the United States at the Eastman School of Music , and Wesleyan University...
and the sister of Nina Ashenafi Richardson, a judge in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
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Ashenafi attended Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
in Tallahassee, where her father was a professor, and graduated with a degree in Drama in 1988. She went on to be a guest star on shows such as A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
, and Mad About You
Mad About You
Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist...
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Upon leaving the role of Keesha Ward on General Hospital in 1998, Ashenafi went on to star in the movie, Honeybee, in 2001.