Career
She began her acting career with the role of Carolyn (1985–1986), the adopted child of Roger and Nadine on the television sitcom What"s Happening Now!!—a sequel to the popular 1970s television sitcom What"s Happening!!. In 1987, she played Tiffany James in the movie Maid to Order and in 1988, she played actress Alfre Woodard"s oldest daughter, Lanell Cooley, in the movie Scrooged. In 1990, she played Rhonda in the film To Sleep with Anger with Mary Alice.
And in 1998, Reina was in the short film A Hollow Place as the mother of Corliss Young.