Sherry Cola is a Chinese actress and comedian. Cola began her career in radio and stand-up comedy. She made her acting debut in 2017 on Amazon's I Love Dick. Cola gained recognition for starring as Alice Kwan in the Freeform drama series Good Trouble (2019–2024). After her breakthrough with the 2023 comedies Joy Ride and Shortcomings, Cola has appeared in the Netflix comedies A Family Affair (2024) and Nobody Wants This (2024–present), as well as Shrinking on Apple TV.
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Early life
Sherry Cola was born in Shanghai, China and grew up in Temple City, California. Her parents legally changed her first name to Sherry when they came to America. Her parents ran a restaurant in San Gabriel, California.
Cola attended California State University, Fullerton for seven years, saying about that time, "I didn't have my shit together, frankly." At CSU Fullerton, she did campus radio. After graduation, she worked at 97.1 FM in Los Angeles. She majored in communications with an emphasis on entertainment studies.
Career
While Sherry is her first name, "Sherry Cola" is her stage name. It was devised in 2011 as her username for the online food review website Yelp.
During this period, she also created short-form comedic content online, including the recurring character Lil’ Tasty, for the online parody web series, Drive Luber. She hosted comedic segments on AMP Radio, which eventually led to her own show, The BAE Show, at the station. She later began pursuing comedy by taking Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) classes and doing stand-up comedy.
Acting
She made her first major television acting appearance in 2017 in the Amazon series I Love Dick, in which she played the recurring role of Natalie. Following this, she expanded into film and television acting, appearing in the romantic drama Endings, Beginnings (2020), directed by Drake Doremus, and in the independent film Sick Girl, which was produced in 2019.
Cola is known for her role as Alice Kwan on the Freeform television series Good Trouble.
Cola has performed stand-up comedy and appeared as an opening act for established comedians, including Ronny Chieng.
She has also worked in voice acting and was cast as one of the lead characters in the animated feature film The Tiger’s Apprentice, produced by Paramount, alongside Sandra Oh and Michelle Yeoh.
After her breakthrough roles in the 2023 comedy films Joy Ride and Shortcomings, Cola appeared in the Netflix romantic comedy film A Family Affair (2024) and the Netflix comedy series Nobody Wants This (2024–present). In April 2025, she joined season 3 of Apple's Shrinking for a recurring role. In 2026, she co-hosted the HGTV series Wild Vacation Rentals with her Nobody Wants This co-star D'Arcy Carden.
Personal life
Cola is bisexual. As of June 2025, she is dating Marisela Zumbado. She served as a Grand Marshal at San Francisco Pride 2022.
