Our first guest coming from the Bahamas is the amazing Shakara Ledard, actress and model born to a Bahamian mother and a French father. The year was 1979 and the town was Nassau. Around the age of 14, young Shakara moved to the United States and began modeling soon after. Her participation in music videos for Justin Timberlake, Usher and Babyface has all been memorable. Inevitably (and logically), she has been a Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue model.

To our great joy, she has also been present in some movie roles, as Gina Gershon’s lesbian lover in Prey for Rock & Roll and as a masseuse tempting Woody Harrelson in After the Sunset (what man could possibly have the will to refuse a massage from Shakara AND Audrey Quock?!?!?!). Besides co-starring with Dolph Lundgren in his first directorial debut in The Defender, Shakara’s screen roles have been disappointingly too brief. Here’s hoping for the future…

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