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Birthday: October 27, 1924
African-American stage, film, and TV luminary Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, the daughter of a Pullman-porter father and schoolteacher mother. While growing up in Harlem, Dee developed an interest in the theater. In 1941, she began studying under Morris Carnovsky at the American Negro Theatre. While attending Hunter College, she made her first professional stage appearance in ...more
- 2007
- Screen Actors Guild
- Best Supporting Actress
- American Gangster
- win
- 2007
- African American Film Critics
- Best Supporting Actress
- American Gangster
- win
- 2007
- Golden Satellite Award
- Best Supporting Actress
- American Gangster
- nom
- 2007
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Supporting Actress
- American Gangster
- nom
- Meet Mary Pleasant
- Narrator
- 2008
- Steam
- Doris
- 2007
- American Gangster
- Mama Lucas
- 2007
- All About Us
- Ms. Ella
- 2006
- Naming Number Two
- Nanna Maria
- 1995
- M&M Smith: For Posterity's Sake
- Producer
- 1990
- Zora is My Name!
- Play Author
- 1968
- Uptight
- Screenwriter
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