Sharon Anne Henderson (DezBaa) is a Hispanic-Diné actor and filmmaker born for the Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together clan). Raised in the tri-cultural area of Northern New Mexico, she was born in Santa Fe, and grew up in Tierra Azul, N.M. Sharon attended schools in Los Alamos, Abiquiu, and Española. Her lineage journeyed from the Basque Country and Spain, to Coahuila Mexico, and from Diné Bikéyah in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest. A former Division of Natural Resources Navajo Nation employee, she holds a Bachelor's degree in geology from Amherst College and studied filmmaking at Northern New Mexico College where she recently filmed and edited a video short for the National Science Foundation. A film and theater actress, she secured her first feature film role in the summer of 2016 for Scott Cooper's period Western, "Hostiles" as a heavily featured character. Her first speaking role came a few months later with Susanna White's "Woman Walks Ahead." Prior to "Hostiles," the first time Sharon ever set foot in front of a camera was as a featured background alongside A. Martinez on Season 5 of "Longmire." Sharon has played Erica in the theater production of "The Sweetest Swing in Baseball" by Rebecca Gilman, which garnered an incredible review for the entire cast by Mark Dunn. Her past stage performances were in grade school when she danced Ballet Folklórico in the ninth grade, and appeared once in a high school drama production of "Our Town." Most fondly, she played a cycad in a Montessori production of Dinosaur Valley--or some musical involving dinosaurs--in Kindergarten. As an artist, she signs her work DezBaa, "She's Going on a Raid" in Diné Bizaad. A name that was given to her by family friend and the first Navajo physicist, Fred Begay. As a child, her favorite dinosaur was the ankylosaurus - the living tank of the late Cretaceous. Sharon is pursuing her MFA in Screenwriting at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. - IMDb Mini Biography By: DezBaa
