- Born
- Birth nameDemetria Dyan McKinney
- Nicknames
- Demi
- Dee Dee
- D
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Demetria McKinney broke out as Janine Payne on the long-running hit series Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which recently celebrated its thirteenth season. She has continued to showcase her range with standout roles as a series regular on The CW's The Winchesters and Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem.
Beyond the screen, McKinney is an accomplished R&B artist whose debut album Officially Yours earned critical acclaim. Its lead single, "Easy," reached the Top 30 on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart, and she received a 2018 NAACP Image Award nomination for Best New Artist.
With a dedicated fanbase and more than 1.5 million followers across social platforms, McKinney's influence extends far beyond her on-screen work.
- IMDb mini biography by: April King
- Demetria McKinney is of Scottish ancestry.
- McKinney faced homelessness at the age of 17, and has one child.
- She is the second oldest of nine siblings. She had a son at the age of seventeen and raised him as a single mother. In 2016, she became engaged to Roger Bobb, but called it off by the end of the year.
- She has had film roles in Daddy's Little Girls and Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
- She began her acting career in the stage production of Tyler Perry's play Meet the Browns.
- She had a supporting role with Terri Vaughn in the 2013 TV movie In the Meantime.
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