Ruby Dee
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1922-10-27
Deathday 2014-06-11 (91 years old)
Place of Birth Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also Known As Ruby Ann Wallace
Ruby Dee
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).
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator
as Annie McCall
as Valerie
as Miss Candy
as Narrator (voice)
as Mrs. Harper
as Doris
as Mama Lucas
as Ms. Ella
as Self
as Nanna Maria
as Nanny
as Self
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Emelda West
as Elsie Claviere
as Mrs. Henry
as Grandmother
as Mary Wilson
as Narrator (voice)
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
as Margo
as Self
as Mommit Porter
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
as Herself - Narrator
as Hortence
as Self (archive footage)
as Indigo
as Sophia
as Evangeline Ferguson
as Jennie
as Grandma (voice)
as Grandmother (voice)
as LaBelle Springbelt
as Mother Abagail
as Narrator
as Rachel
as Lydia Wilson
as Narrator
as Estelle Williams
as Narrator (voice)
as Lucinda Purify
as Rowena
as Jackie's Mother
as Corrine Dart
as Zora Neale Hurston
as Self
as Mother Sister
as Narrator (voice)
as Elizabeth Keckley
as Mrs. Grimes
as Mammy Watkins
as Faye Williams
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
as Mary Tyrone
as Female
as Irene Whitfield
as Grandmother Baxter
as Queen Victoria Haley
as Self
as Leah Matanzima
as Julia Augustine
as Ruth Campanella
as Netta's mother
as Ruth
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
as Narrator (voice)
as Sue Ann Lucas
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Lucinda
as Laurie
as Self - Guest
as Joan Robinson
as Vicky Kingsbury
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
as Thief
as Harriet Tubman
as Laura Smith
as Ruth Younger
as Catherine Collins
as Christine
as Ruth
as Elizabeth
as Lucy Tyler
as Irma Jackson
as Rachel
as Rowena Finch
as Connie Brooks (uncredited)
as Rae Robinson
as Drugstore Girl
as Joan
Writer
as Writer
Sound
as Vocals