His mother, a math teacher, moved the family to Denmark when he was six months old for about three years. After that they lived in Bahrain until Shemar was about six years old, where he attended a British private school.
Graduated from Santa Clara (CA) University, where he majored in communications and
played varsity baseball.
He is the son of Marilyn J. (Wilson) and Franklin Sherrod Moore. His father is African-American and his mother was of half Irish and half French-Canadian descent. All of his maternal great-grandparents were born in Canada, in New Brunswick and Newfoundland on his grandfather's side and in St-Didace, Québec on his grandmother's.
Presented Susan Lucci with her very first (and so far only) Daytime Emmy award for her 19th nomination. After reading the card and before announcing her name, he shouted, "The streak is over!".
Once revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) that, in high school, he and his friends referred to his curly long hair in the back as "Curls for the Girls!".
Father, with girlfriend Denise, of daughter Frankie Moore [May, 2023].
His uncle, Stephen Wilson, is a teacher at Watertown High School in Watertown, MA..