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Shenae Grimes is a Gemini Award winning Canadian actress. She currently plays the role of Darcy Edwards on Degrassi: The Next Generation, as well as the role of Annie Wilson in 90210, the new spinoff of Beverly Hills, 90210. She acted in a 2006 Coffee Crisp commercial. She was a recurring guest star on the series Naturally, Sadie as Arden Allcott. She is half Irish on her father`s side and half Italian on her mother`s side.

Shenae Grimes is a Canadian actress who is also best known for playing popular yet distraught good/bad girl Darcy Edwards on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Beginning with minor role in 2004, Grimes became a lead character in Degrassi in 2006. In 2008, she was cast as Annie Wilson in 90210, the CW`s spinoff off Beverly Hills, 90210. Grimes returned for the eighth season of Degrassi, but because of her work for 90210, her role is now recurring. Grimes graced the cover of the November 2008 issue of Saturday Night Magazine who called her 90210`s "New Brenda." 90210 Star Shenae Grimes. She also appeared in the ABC Movie, "Picture This."

Despite the popularity of the various series in the Degrassi universe since 1979 (The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, Degrassi Talks, School`s Out, and Degrassi: The Next Generation) in both the United States and Canada, Grimes is only the second Degrassi actor to subsequently star in an American-produced television series; the first being Rachel Blanchard of The Kids of Degrassi Street and Clueless. Coincidently, both actresses` U.S. characters are high school students in Beverly Hills.

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