Ruby Dee
Age: N/A | From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Ruby Ann Wallace
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 71
TV Involvements: 16
Most Famous Work
Biography
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).
Most Famous Work
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(2000) Mary Wilson
The Fugitive
(1963) Laura Smith
The Defenders
(1961) Catherine Collins
American Experience
(1988) Narrator (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995) Grandma (voice)
The Great Adventure
(1963) Harriet Tubman
The Stand
(1994) Mother Abagail
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(1951) Rowena FinchActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Self | |
| 2013 | Narrator | |
| Self | ||
| 2012 | Annie McCall | |
| 2011 | Valerie | |
| N/A | ||
| Miss Candy | ||
| 2009 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Mrs. Harper | ||
| 2007 | Doris | |
| Mama Lucas | ||
| Ms. Ella | ||
| Herself | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Self | |
| Nanna Maria | ||
| 2005 | Self | |
| Nanny | ||
| 2004 | (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| 2001 | Emelda West | |
| Elsie Claviere | ||
| 2000 | Mary Wilson | |
| Mrs. Henry | ||
| Grandmother | ||
| 1999 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany | ||
| Margo | ||
| Self | ||
| Mommit Porter | ||
| 1998 | Narrator | |
| Herself - Narrator | ||
| Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge") | ||
| 1997 | Hortence | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1996 | Indigo | |
| Sophia | ||
| 1995 | Grandma (voice) | |
| Evangeline Ferguson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1994 | Grandmother (voice) | |
| Mother Abagail | ||
| 1993 | Narrator | |
| Rachel | ||
| Lydia Wilson | ||
| 1992 | Estelle Williams | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1991 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Lucinda Purify | ||
| 1990 | Rowena | |
| Jackie's Mother | ||
| Corrine Dart | ||
| Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 1989 | Self | |
| Mother Sister | ||
| 1988 | Narrator (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Elizabeth Keckley | ||
| 1985 | N/A | |
| Mammy Watkins | ||
| Faye Williams | ||
| Mrs. Grimes | ||
| 1983 | Herself - Narrator (voice) | |
| 1982 | Mary Tyrone | |
| Female | ||
| 1980 | Irene Whitfield | |
| N/A | ||
| 1979 | Grandmother Baxter | |
| Queen Victoria Haley | ||
| 1978 | Self | |
| 1976 | Leah Matanzima | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| Julia Augustine | ||
| Ruth Campanella | ||
| 1972 | Netta's mother | |
| Ruth | ||
| Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1971 | Sue Ann Lucas | |
| Self | ||
| 1969 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Lucinda | ||
| 1968 | Laurie | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1967 | Joan Robinson | |
| 1963 | Harriet Tubman | |
| Laura Smith | ||
| Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins | ||
| Thief | ||
| 1961 | Catherine Collins | |
| Ruth Younger | ||
| 1959 | Christine | |
| Ruth | ||
| 1958 | Elizabeth | |
| 1957 | Lucy Tyler | |
| 1954 | Irma Jackson | |
| 1951 | Rowena Finch | |
| Rachel | ||
| 1950 | Connie Brooks (uncredited) | |
| Rae Robinson | ||
| 1947 | Drugstore Girl | |
| 1946 | Joan | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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