Early life

Aytes was born in Harlem, New Yorkand attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from State University of New York at Purchase college. She began her career as model and has appeared in commercials for McDonald's, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz.

Career

Aytes made her film debut in the 2004 comedy White Chicks as Denise Porter, She is most remembered for playing Lisa Breaux in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, where Aytes 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, Aytes guest starred in the Fox series Bones as Felicia Saroyan, the sister of Lab Supervisor, Cam. She starred in the independent film Trick 'r Treat She played role Leigh Barnthouse in the 2007 Fox series Drive. She also played Tara Kole in the TV show NCIS from CBS. Aytes also appeared in the TNT drama series Dark Blue in 2010.

Aytes was a regular cast member in the ABC drama series The Forgotten from 2009 to 2010, playing 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. From 2010 to 2011, she had a recurring role in the ABC series Detroit 1-8-7 as prosecutor Alice Williams, until her character was murdered in the episode "Key to the City", which aired on January 11, 2011. In 2011, Aytes guest starred in three episodes as Amber James, the former girlfriend of Keith Watson, in the seventh season of ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives. She is represented by Ryan Daly of Zero Gravity Management. She also starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom Work It in 2012.

In 2012, Aytes was cast as one of the four leads, along with Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim and Jes Macallan, in the ABC drama series Mistresses about the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships. The series premiered on June 3, 2013. Aytes played the role of Perri "Pebbles" Reid in the 2013 biographical film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story about the R&B and hip hop musical trio TLC. In 2013, she also began appearing as Savannah Hayes, Shemar Moore' character, Derek Morgan's girlfriend on the CBS series, Criminal Minds.

Personal Life

In July 2015, Aytes became engaged to her boyfriend, CJ Lindsey.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	White Chicks	Denise Porter
2006	Madea's Family Reunion	Lisa
2007	Trick 'r Treat	Maria
2011	Inheritance, TheThe Inheritance	Lily
2014	Butterfly Chasers, TheThe Butterfly Chasers	Diana Lee
2015	My Favorite Five	Hailey Colburn

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Sex and the City	Hostess	Episode: "Great Sexpectations"
2005	Jonny Zero	Keisha	Episode: "I Did It All for the Nooky"
2005	My Wife and Kids	Nurse	Episode: "The 'V' Story"
2006	13 Graves	Karen	TV pilot
2006	ER	Tamara	Episode: "Split Decisions"
2006	CSI: NY	Sienna	Episode: "Stuck on You"
2006	Half & Half	Yolanda	Episode: "The Big Who You Gonna Call Episode"
2007	Day Break	Woman on Plane	Episode: "What If He's Free?"
2007	Drive	Leigh Bartnhouse	Series regular, 7 episodes
2007	Las Vegas	Carley	Episode: "When Life Gives You Lemon Bars"
2007	Bones	Felicia Saroyan	Episode: "Intern in the Incinerator"
2008	Dirt	Jasmine Ford	Episodes: "Ties That (Don't) Bind" and "And the Winner Is"
2008	Shark	Karla Ballantine	Episode: "Leaving Las Vegas"
2009	Mistresses	Ava	TV pilot
2009	NCIS	Tara Kole	Episode: "Knockout"
2009-10	Forgotten, TheThe Forgotten	Grace Russell	Main role, 17 episodes
2010	Dark Blue	Eva	Episodes: "Shell Game" and "Home Sweet Home"
2010-11	Detroit 1-8-7	Alice Williams	Recurring role, 5 episodes
2011	Desperate Housewives	Amber James	Recurring role, 3 episodes
2011	White Collar	Isabelle Wilson	Episode: "As You Were"
2012	Work It	Vanessa	Main role, 13 episodes
2013	CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story	Perri "Pebbles" Reid	Television film
2013-present	Mistresses	April Malloy	Series Regular, 39 episodes
2013-2016	Criminal Minds	Savannah Morgan	Recurring role, 10 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2009	Left 4 Dead 2	Rochelle
2013	Resident Evil 6	Rochelle

[ Source: Wikipedia ]