Shanice Antonette Banton (born 1992) is a Canadian actress known for her role as Marisol Lewis on Degrassi: The Next Generation. She has also portrayed Violet Hart on

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since season eleven. Her first appearance in a feature film was playing Ruth, the wife of

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in the 2016 film

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Personal life

Banton is the daughter of Jamaican immigrant parents, the fifth of six children. She trained as a drama and musical theatre student at

Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts (commonly known as Wexford Collegiate, WCSA, Wexford CSA, Wexford or "Wex" for short), formerly and still known as Wexford Collegiate Institute (WCI) and initially known as Northwest Collegiate Institute is ...

. She lives in Toronto.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

* 1992 births Canadian television actresses Canadian child actresses Living people Canadian people of Jamaican descent Actresses from Toronto {{Canada-tv-actor-stub