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 (1961). Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and Do the Right Thing (1989). Dee was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. For her performance as Mama Lucas in American Gangster (2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Dee was a Grammy, Emmy, Obie and Drama Desk winner. She was also a National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honors and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipient.
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0/77- LOLove in Exile
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Betty and Coretta
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
1982
A Thousand Words
Video Girl- RERed & Blue Marbles
Politics of Love- DRDream Street
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
America- A A Colored Life: The Herb Jeffries Story
Steam
All About Us- OUOur Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
The Way Back Home
No. 2
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'- BABaby of the Family
Taking Back Our Town
Feast of All Saints
Finding Buck McHenry
A Storm in Summer
The Unfinished Journey
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Baby Geniuses
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Passing Glory- A A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
The Wall
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
A Simple Wish
Sports on the Silver Screen
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Just Cause
Tuesday Morning Ride
Whitewash
The Stand
Cop & ½
The Ernest Green Story
Color Adjustment
Jungle Fever
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Love at Large
Zora is My Name!
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Do the Right Thing
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Cat People
All God's Children
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Countdown at Kusini
Wedding Band
It's Good to Be Alive
Black Girl
Buck and the Preacher
The Sheriff
Deadlock
Uptight
The Incident- NONow is the Time
Gone Are the Days!
The Balcony
A Raisin in the Sun
Take a Giant Step
Virgin Island
St. Louis Blues
Edge of the City
Go Man Go
The Tall Target
The Jackie Robinson Story
The Fight Never Ends