Actor / Director Profile

Rochelle Aytes was born in New York City and attended LaGuardia High School. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from State University of New York Purchase College. She is most known for her 2004 role in White Chicks as Denise Porter, and more recently in the 2009 TV series The Forgotten as Detective Grace Russell who teams up with a volunteer group, including former Chicago police detective, Christian Slater, to solve cases of missing or unidentified homicide victims. She also played Lisa Breaux in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, where Rochelle plays a woman who is caught in a relationship in which her fiancé (Blair Underwood) beats and threatens her.In 2006, She played Nicole Jamieson in the test pilot episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne. She also provides the voice for Rochelle in Left 4 Dead 2.In 2007, she guest starred in the hit Fox series Bones as Felicia Saroyan, the sister of Lab Supervisor, Cam. She also played Leigh Barnthouse in the 2007 Fox series Drive.In 2009, she also played Tara Kole in the TV show, NCIS from CBS and in the independent film Trick R Treat.In 2010, she also played "Eva" in the hit TNT series Dark Blue.In 2011, She had a recurring role in the ABC-TV series Detroit 1-8-7 as prosecutor Alice Williams, until her character was murdered in the 1-11-2011 episode "Key to the City".She is playing the part of Amber James, the former girlfriend of Keith Watson, on ABC's Desperate Housewives.She is represented by Ryan Daly of Zero Gravity Management.