Kali Hawk (born October 4, 1986) is an American actress, comedian, model and jewelry designer.
[2] She has starred in films such as Fifty Shades of Black, Couples Retreat, Bridesmaids and Tyler Perry Presents Peeples.
She recurred as Shelby in New Girl and co-starred in the first two seasons of the Adult Swim series Black Jesus.
Hawk has appeared in numerous comedy films, including Couples Retreat, Get Him to the Greek, Bridesmaids, Peeples, Answer This!
In 2019, Hawk was added to the cast of the ABC television series Schooled playing Wilma, a science teacher who was poached from an elite school to teach at William Penn Academy, but she was ultimately replaced by Haneefah Wood before appearing in an episode[6]