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Sheila Carrasco is an American actress known for her role as Flower in the CBS show Ghosts.^[1] She has also appeared in The Good Place, Jane the Virgin, and American Housewife,^[2] and has made appearances in films like the Donor Party.

Carrasco was born in the South Side of Chicago. Her father was a pastor.^[3]

Her interest in acting started from making home movies as a youth.^[4] She began acting at age 7 in a theater production of Annie.^[2]

She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing and Set Design at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and received a Master of Fine Arts from Harvard University.^[2]

Carrasco's first acting credit was a guest star role in the television show The Untouchables in 1993.^[3]

She also performed at the American Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, Court Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, and the Groundlings.^[4] At Harvard's A.R.T Institute, she performed in The Discreet Charm of Monsieur Jourdain. At NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she performed in A Streetcar Named Desire, Life and Limb, Youth in Asia, Life is a Dream, Medea, The Merchant of Venice. At Steppenwolf Garage, she performed in The Philadelphia Story, Court Theater, Blue Window.^[5]

She is also a member of the theater company IAMA, where she performed a one-person show called Anyone but Me, which she wrote, about the Latin American experience and identity.^[6][7][8]

Carrasco wrote the short film, Piano Lessons,^[9] and wrote and starred in the short film, The Quake, about two L.A. residents whose lives were "destroyed" by a 1.1 magnitude earthquake.^[10]

She has made recurring appearances on shows including, The Beauty Inside, Get Lost, How to Survive High School, Me and My Grandma, Jane the Virgin, and #VanLife. She also appeared in podcast series the Carrier and The Edge of Sleep.^[11]

She stars in the hit CBS show Ghosts as a main character, Flower.^[12][13][14]

Carrasco grew up as a member of the United Methodist Church.^[3] She and her husband Josh have one child.^[15]

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