The Brooklyn native of 44 years, who is also well-known for her roles on "The Wire", and "Kings", told People she was diagnosed last summer with ovarian and uterine cancer.
Barrett said, "I am an extremely private person, yet I felt a duty to tell my story." Barrett cited Maggie Lockwood's experiences with breast cancer, which Barrett filmed in episodes that were shot in 2019. "We are all so afraid to face mortality or even to pronounce cancer. We have so much more power inside than we realize.
Barrett stated that Barrett was a fictional nurse who was suffering from health problems. She said that "a sea" of people connected with Barrett via social media. Barrett also felt "brought to me courage and so I felt an inevitability of meeting their hearts where they had met me."
Barrett is a mother to twins, 11-month-olds, and her husband, pastor Gavin Barrett. She discovered in July that Barrett had a football-sized tumor in her uterus. Barrett also said that her left ovary was affected. Barrett told the outlet that she looked nine months pregnant and felt short of breath. However, no pain.
She recalled shaving her head in front of her children, noting that she had sacrificed her "essence of beauty" over her entire life.
Barrett said, "I wept. I wept. I wept." It was an amazing experience to do it in front them.
Barrett was initially diagnosed with a "aggressive" cancer and told she would need chemo. She then had a hysterectomy and felt "shocked, shocked and ashamed of my womanhood." But she eventually "found the courage and just said, "I'm going face it." It's impossible to hold on to fear. But I am holding on to faith."
Marlyne Nayokah, a Brooklyn native, was Barrett's mother. Before she was able to co-star with Hill Harper in the 2003 romantic comedy Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Barrett began her career on television and stage. She was a VJ at Musique Plus, a Canadian TV station,
in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, Barrett was a guest star on a variety of television dramas. These included Law & Order, NBC's police procedural drama, and its spin-offs Law & Order, Law & Order Trial by Jury, and Conviction, NBC's short-lived legal drama. She starred in The Wire's crime drama from 2006 to 2008.
In 2007, she also starred in Damages, an FX legal drama as Felicia Marquand. Barrett starred in 2009 as Thomasina the efficient palace secretary/aide-de-camp on the short-lived NBC drama Kings.
Barrett was back on television in 2015 as Det. Chris Thompson appeared in the ABC crime drama American Crime. Later in that year, she was cast later as Nurse Maggie Lockwood on the NBC medical drama Chicago Med. In the thirteen first episodes,
she was part of the recurring cast and was then added to the main cast for the fourteenth.
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