Her breakthrough acting role was on the Emmy award-winning soap opera The Young and the Restless, which earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series".
[8] Sherwood started her career in show business as a child print model for companies such as Sears and Atlantic City.
The charity event raised the most in a single night in her high school's history and funded new art and stage equipment.
[2] Sherwood later began taking acting lessons and landed a guest role on the TV sitcom My Wife and Kids.
In 2003, she was cast in the short lived series Platinum as the feisty Jade Rhames alongside Sticky Fingaz and Jason George.
[13] In 2013, she starred in Boiling Pot, which is based on true events of racism that occurred on college campuses across the country during the 2008 Presidential election.
The film, written and directed by the Ashmawey brothers under AshmaweyFilms, also stars Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr., Danielle Fishel, Keith David, M. Emmet Walsh, and John Heard.
Sherwood plays the president of the Black Student Union, struggling to use the system in place to fight the racist events happening on her campus.
[3] Sherwood is good friends with Monique Coleman, Erica Hubbard, Kimberly Kevon Williams,[14] as well as former Y&R co-star Victoria Rowell.