Birthday: Oct 27, 1922
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Ruby Dee

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).

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
Do the Right Thing	Mother Sister	1989
Jungle Fever	Lucinda Purify	1991
American Gangster	Mama Lucas	2007
America	Mrs. Harper	2009
Cat People	Female	1982
Love at Large	Corrine Dart	1990
Jazztime Tale	Narrator (voice)	1991
Just Cause	Evangeline Ferguson	1995
Cop and ½	Rachel	1993
Buck and the Preacher	Ruth	1972
No. 2	Nanna Maria	2006
The Tall Target	Rachel	1951
Edge of the City	Lucy Tyler	1957
A Raisin in the Sun	Ruth Younger	1961
The Jackie Robinson Story	Rae Robinson	1950
The Incident	Joan Robinson	1967
A Simple Wish	Hortence	1997
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		2003
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Nanny	2005
Politics of Love		2011
Feast of All Saints	Elsie Claviere	2001
Black Girl	Netta's mother	1972
Video Girl	Valerie	2011
Decoration Day	Rowena	1990
Uptight	Laurie	1968
Finding Buck McHenry	Mrs. Henry	2000
Mr. and Mrs. Loving	Sophia	1996
It's Good to Be Alive	Ruth Campanella	1974
A Storm in Summer	Grandmother	2000
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal	Self	2013
Betty and Coretta	Narrator	2013
Steam	Doris	2007
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Grandmother Baxter	1979
Virgin Island	Ruth	1959
Take a Giant Step	Christine	1959
Tuesday Morning Ride	Jennie	1995
Gone Are the Days!	Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins	1963
After Goodbye	Narrator	1993
Sports on the Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	1997
That Man of Mine	Joan	1946
Deadlock	Lucinda	1969
Long Day's Journey Into Night	Mary Tyrone	1982
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School	Narrator (voice)	2009
Passing Glory	Mommit Porter	1999
The Wall	Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")	1998
Countdown at Kusini	Leah Matanzima	1976
Whitewash	Grandmother (voice)	1994
Taking Back Our Town	Emelda West	2001
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson	Jackie's Mother	1990
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner	Narrator	1998
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany	1999
Neighbours	Vicky Kingsbury	1966
No Way Out	Connie Brooks (uncredited)	1950
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story	Indigo	1996
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	1970
Love in Syncopation		1946
The Fight Never Ends		1948
What a Guy		1948
Wedding Band	Julia Augustine	1974
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll	Miss Candy	2011
Making 'Do the Right Thing'	Self	1989
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema	Herself	2007
All God's Children	Irene Whitfield	1980
Go Tell It on the Mountain	Mrs. Grimes	1985
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	Self	2004
The Ernest Green Story	Lydia Wilson	1993
A Thousand Words	Annie McCall	2012
Zora is My Name!	Zora Neale Hurston	1990
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years	(archive footage)	2004
St. Louis Blues	Elizabeth	1958
The Balcony	Thief	1963
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'	Self	2002
Color Adjustment	Narrator	1992
Go Man Go	Irma Jackson	1954
Discovering William Greaves	Self	2006
Baby Geniuses	Margo	1999
Poitier's Walter Lee	Self (archive footage)	2018
To Be Young, Gifted and Black	Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters	1972
The Sheriff	Sue Ann Lucas	1971
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee	Self	2014
On Merit	Narrator (voice)	1972
The Unfinished Journey	Narrator (voice)	1999
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson	Self	2007
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand	Self	1999
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six		1980
All About Us	Ms. Ella	2007
Easy to Get	Drugstore Girl	1947
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood	Self	1998
The Stand	Mother Abagail	1994
Series	Cast	Year
Spenser: For Hire		1985
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mary Wilson	2000
The Great Adventure	Harriet Tubman	1963
The Golden Girls	Mammy Watkins	1985
China Beach		1988
Little Bill		1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rowena Finch	1951
The Stand	Mother Abagail	1994
Police Woman		1974
The Fugitive	Laura Smith	1963
Roots: The Next Generations	Queen Victoria Haley	1979
Iconoclasts	Self	2005
Middle Ages	Estelle Williams	1992
The Defenders	Catherine Collins	1961
The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	1978
Lincoln	Elizabeth Keckley	1988
Reading Rainbow	Herself - Narrator (voice)	1983
American Experience	Narrator (voice)	1988
Christianity: The First 1000 Years	Herself - Narrator	1998
The Atlanta Child Murders	Faye Williams	1985
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Grandma (voice)	1995
The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	1968
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years	Narrator	2002
Touched by an Angel	LaBelle Springbelt	1994
Great Performances	Self	1971

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