Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, among scores of others awards. She was married to the late actor, Ossie Davis.
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| - Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, among scores of others awards. She was married to the late actor, Ossie Davis.
- Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924 – died June 11, 2014) made a guest appearance on The Golden Girls as Viola Watkins in the Season 5 episode titled "Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy". A talented veteran stage/film and TV actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, Ruby is perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and her role as "Mother Sister" in the 1989 Spike Lee produced and directed film Do the Right Thing. She was married to Ossie Davis, who portrays Da Mayor in Do the Right Thing, from 1948 until his death in 2005.
- An Emmy Award winner (for the 1990 TV movie Decoration Day), Dee began her career on stage, on and off-Broadway, appearing with Will Lee in The World of Sholom Alecheim (1952). In 1959, she originated the role of supportive housewife Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, and reprised the role on film in 1960. Other movie credits included The Jackie Robinson Story (as Robinson's wife Rachel), The Incident, Buck and the Preacher (with Harry Belafonte), A Simple Wish (with Martin Short), and American Gangster (earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an Image Awards nomination).
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| - Ruby Dee makes a guest appearance as Viola Watkins, Blanche's old childhood nanny, in the Season 5 episode of "The Golden Girls " titled "Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy".
- Dee at the 80th Academy Awards
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| - Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, among scores of others awards. She was married to the late actor, Ossie Davis.
- An Emmy Award winner (for the 1990 TV movie Decoration Day), Dee began her career on stage, on and off-Broadway, appearing with Will Lee in The World of Sholom Alecheim (1952). In 1959, she originated the role of supportive housewife Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, and reprised the role on film in 1960. Other movie credits included The Jackie Robinson Story (as Robinson's wife Rachel), The Incident, Buck and the Preacher (with Harry Belafonte), A Simple Wish (with Martin Short), and American Gangster (earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an Image Awards nomination). Television work in the 1960s included regular roles on the soap operas The Guiding Light (as Martha Frazier) and Peyton Place (as Alma Mills), while later TV work included Lincoln! (1988), The Stand (as Mother Abigail), and Bill Cosby's animated series Little Bill (as Alice the Great). She appeared with her husband Ossie Davis in the celebrity version of "Sing" in Episode 3851.
- Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924 – died June 11, 2014) made a guest appearance on The Golden Girls as Viola Watkins in the Season 5 episode titled "Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy". A talented veteran stage/film and TV actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, Ruby is perhaps best-known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and her role as "Mother Sister" in the 1989 Spike Lee produced and directed film Do the Right Thing. She was married to Ossie Davis, who portrays Da Mayor in Do the Right Thing, from 1948 until his death in 2005.
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