[1] She also portrayed Aisha on the second season of The WB comedy series The Steve Harvey Show (1997–98).
[2] Born in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood to artistically inclined parents, Johnson grew up training in the arts.
Her father, a painter and contemporary artist, and her mother, an actress and dancer, were both educators who owned a theatrical dance company.
Johnson attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts where she majored in dance and film.
[3] Johnson was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead in 1994, for her role as Chantel Mitchell in the film Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.